Building on the work of the "UN Foundation's Universal Access Project" and "United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)," the Summit assembled and secured commitments from governments, civil society, and the private-sector of more than $2.6 billion, providing 120 million women in developing nations access to voluntary, lifesaving family planning information and services by 2020.
Access for all women, everywhere, to simple, proven, lifesaving technologies -- family planning and antiretroviral drugs chief among them -- needs continued investment if progress is to be sustained.
Family planning is lifesaving.
The innovation with the most potential to save lives is injectable contraceptives, which may be surprising to some, but not to those of us in the development community who for a long time recognized the lifesaving potential of family planning.
The experience and results of this pilot project contribute to the global evidence base on the integration of 2 lifesaving services immunization and family planning.
"The doctor was planning on a lifesaving mission".
So it's no surprise that the man talks piously about creating a culture of life while taking funding from lifesaving prevention programs like family planning and giving it to abstinence only preachers.
The bottom line is that more federal funds are needed to enhance readiness at the local level, where better training, equipment and planning can make a genuine lifesaving difference.
However, because private pharmacies and private practitioners are less likely to be located in lower income neighborhoods, plans to make access to potentially lifesaving vaccines and drugs speedier and more equitable might, in fact, exacerbate disparities.
His President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or Pepfar, directed lifesaving drugs and other care to millions with H.I.V. and was called the largest humanitarian health effort ever undertaken by any country.
