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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").

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