Hopes High for London Family Planning Summit

While the Rio 20 Summit disappointed environmental leaders and reproductive rights advocates, hopes are high for the upcoming International Family Planning Summit being held in London on July 11, World Population Day.  Convened by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the London gathering is expected to yield $4 billion in new commitments to international family planning, enough to provide contraceptive services to an additional 120 million women in the developing world by 2020. The London summit will represent a major turning point, reversing a near two-decade decline in international support for family planning and reproductive health.  Several nations and dozens of foundations and nonprofit organizations will be attending the London summit. 

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