Source: Geek Wire
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged to donate $375 million in order to expand access to contraceptives in under-resourced communities around the world.
The foundation, which previously donated over $1 billion to the organization Family Planning 2020, seeks to increase global contraceptive access by the year 2020.
With potential governmental funding cuts, worldwide family planning services may drastically decrease.
“When I started studying the data, I learned that contraceptives are an essential part of the healthier, more prosperous world we’re all working toward,” stated Melinda Gates.
“This additional funding won’t begin to fill the gap that proposed U.S. budget cuts could create, but it will help build a bridge to the women and girls we have yet to reach,” she explained.
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