Women Deliver 2010: Challenges to Meeting the Unmet Need for Contraception

Women Deliver 2010:

Challenges to Meeting the Unmet Need for Contraception

With over 100 million women estimated to want, but not have, access to contraception, urgent attention is needed to meet that need. What obstacles exist and how can progress be made?

MODERATOR:

Oying Rimon, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

SPEAKERS:

Akin Bankole, Director of International Research, Guttmacher Institute
Carmen Barroso, Regional Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation / Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR)
Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)

Left to right: Akin Bankole, Carmen Barroso, and Cecile Richards