London summit 'best opportunity' to address lack of access to family planning

In the first of a series titled "Imagine a world...," posted on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Paula Franklin, U.K. medical director for Marie Stopes International, writes, "For the most part, only people who really need or want something care much about it being available, and that's why it can be hard to make people in the developed world tune in to the huge unmet need for contraception globally -- 222 million people who want to use contraception can't get it, at the last count." She says that the upcoming London Summit on Family Planning is "perhaps the world's best opportunity to agree together what we're going to do to rectify the situation," and she concludes by summarizing some of the upcoming posts in the series by Marie Stopes staff (6/25).