The U.K. Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with UNFPA and other partners on Wednesday, July 11, are hosting the London Summit on Family Planning, which aims "to raise $4 billion to expand access to contraception for 120 million women in the developing world by 2020," according to Reuters. At the summit, the Gates Foundation "is set to unveil funding a sum in the hundreds of millions of dollars for a campaign to improve access to contraception in the developing world," the news service notes (Wickham, 7/10). In addition, the U.K. government will "pledge to donate more than one billion pounds [$1.6 billion] to help family planning services in the developing world," the Independent writes (Pickover, 7/11). The WHO "committed to fast-track its assessment of new and existing quality contraceptives so more women in low- and middle-income countries can obtain and use a broader range of safe and effective contraceptive products," the agency reports in a media note (7/11).