Based on literature concerning intervention strategies for family planning, are there any relevant recommendations or policies developed by key...

As of 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been developing policies and intervention strategies to help the poorest women and men of developing nations gain needed access to contraceptives. Currently, "less than 20 percent of women in sub-Saharan Africa and 34 percent of women in South Asia" have access to contraceptives ("Family Planning"). Pregnancy complications and childbirth complications are primary causes of death in the poorest nations. Unwanted births can lead to such complications as well as to unhealthy abortions, making lack of access to contraceptives one of the most critical health disparities. In addition to being able to prevent maternal and infant deaths, many methods of contraceptive are also able to prevent the transmittance of HIV, another primary cause of death in the poorest nations.

Currently, the price of quality contraceptives is too high, and there is a lack of funding and donors. Due to these problems, one of the intervention strategies of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is to explore and develop "new contraceptive technologies" that will be cheaper ("Family Planning"). Another intervention strategy is to advocate for more funding from the private sector as as well as from national governments. They also aim to push national governments to develop their own stronger policies concerning family planning. A third intervention strategy is working with the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative to "provide high-quality, cost-effective, and voluntary family planning services" to the world's poorest urban areas ("Family Planning").

The Population Foundation of India (PFI) has also developed a set of family planning policies to be initiated between 2011 and 2016. The purpose of their policies is to control the population in an effort to protect the health and well-being of the overall family. The first policy is to promote delaying marriage until later ages. Their second policy is to promote delaying the first pregnancy until later ages. Their third is to promote long delays between subsequent births. Their fourth is to improve their family planning and reproductive health programs. In addition, they strive to promote policies to prevent women from being sexually coerced ("Repositioning Family Planning").

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...

nouns - what do you call the person who passes the trophies to the prize giver/presenter?

The person who gives out the trophies to the winners are called award presenters. So what do u call the person who passes the trophies to the presenter? Thanks!

Is 'efficate' a word in English?

I routinely hear the word "efficate" being used. For example, "The most powerful way to efficate a change in the system is to participate." I do not find entries for this word in common English dictionaries, but I do not have an unabridged dictionary. I have checked the OED (I'm not sure if it is considered unabridged), and it has no entry for "efficate". It does have an entry for "efficiate", which is used in the same way. Wordnik has an entry for "efficate" with over 1800 hits, thus providing some evidence for the frequency of use. I personally like the word and find the meaning very clear and obvious when others use it. If it's not currently an "officially documented" word, perhaps its continued use will result in it being better documented.

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