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Ex-AID Chief Calls for More Family Planning Aid

Posted on April 29, 2009 - 3:06pm by

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.

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