International family-planning budgets in the 'new US' era.

摘要

Anticipating major shifts in the political complexion of Washington as a result of the 2008 Presidential election, we, as five former directors of the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) population and reproductive health programme, recently issued a report as part of an effort to increase USAID's stagnant family-planning budget. Our evidence-based report, Making the case for international family planning, recommends an increase from the present level of USDollars 457 million to Dollars 1-2 billion in 2010, with modest further annual increases thereafter.