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Democracy in Development: The London Family Planning Summit

<p>A Hmong woman holds her son on her back while sewing in a northern province of Vietnam on January 1, 2010 (Nguyen Huy Kham/Courtesy Reuters).</p>
A Hmong woman holds her son on her back while sewing in a northern province of Vietnam on January 1, 2010 (Nguyen Huy Kham/Courtesy Reuters).

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  • Isobel Coleman
    Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program

Yesterday on my blog, Democracy in Development, I discussed the London Family Planning Summit and the importance of family planning for the health of mothers and children. As I write:

I’m often asked, what is the single most important intervention to improve the lives of women and girls in developing countries? I usually answer by urging investment in girls’ education. But a close second—and in some cases I would put first—is birth control. Access to family planning is a matter of survival for many of the world’s women, and their children too.

You can read the full post here.