World Bank May Target Family Planning
Los Angeles Times |
Washington- Under beleaguered President Paul D. Wolfowitz, the World Bank may be scaling back its long-standing support for family planning, which many countries consider essential to women's health and the fight against AIDS.
In an internal e-mail the bank's leader for Madagascar indicated that one of the two managing directors appointed by Wolfowitz ordered the removal of all references to family planning from a document laying out strategy for the African nation. And a draft of the bank's long- term health program strategy overseen by the same official makes almost no mention of family planning, suggesting a wider rollback may be underway.
The World Bank has traditionally championed birth control and other methods of family planning as a key strategy to improve women's health and economic status. More.
