July 11th marked the 20th anniversary ofthe United Nation's Population Fund's World Population Day.
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Ex-AID Chief Calls for More Family Planning Aid
By Dominique Soguel - WeNews correspondent
NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--A group of five former directors of the population and reproductive health program of the U.S. Agency for International Development issued a report Tuesday calling for aggressive investment in family planning to curb population growth, poverty and maternal mortality.
They recommended the United States push its spending on overseas family planning to $1.2 billion in the next year's funding round from $475 million in 2008.
