UNFPA Executive Director calls for international community to put family planning back on 'radar'

UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin on Tuesday told the Associated Press that the world should focus more on family planning issues, stating that "'family planning seems to have fallen off the radar' in the past two decades -- a victim of politics, funding shortages and focus on other priorities such as fighting AIDS," the news service reports. According to the AP, he said "that 220 million women lack adequate information about family planning or a regular supply of contraceptives," and he "hopes a July 11 summit in London organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government will increase attention to the need for better family planning in poor countries" (6/26).