Jul 8 2011
As the United Nations prepares to recognize World Population Day on July 11, with the global population is expected to reach seven billion by October, U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin told Inter Press Service that "seven billion represents a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action."
Osotimehin plans to launch a campaign called "7 Billion Actions" that will highlight investing in youth and education; preserving natural resources; and providing reproductive health and family planning services to the "215 million women who want - but do not have - access" to such care, IPS writes. The article also quotes Tamara Kreinin, executive director of Women and Population at the U.N. Foundation (Deen, 7/7).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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