Dear colleagues,

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed in 2000 to help the international community end poverty, hunger, and fundamental health and gender inequities, and are widely accepted as the primary path to alleviating poverty worldwide. Women's access to family planning plays an essential and incontrovertible role in meeting each of the MDGs.

FHI is leading an advocacy campaign on international reproductive health and family planning, the Diverse Voices in Unison: Family Planning and the Millennium Development Goals initiative. With partners from a variety of disciplines, we have developed a consensus statement that highlights the multifaceted importance of and interdisciplinary support for international family planning. It will serve as a call to action for expanded discourse, broad partnerships and consensus building, and increased funding, all of which will accelerate progress toward meeting the targets of MDG 5, as well as the other MDGs.

The consensus statement can be downloaded here: http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Programs/RtoP/res_FP_MDGs.htm (click on the image at the bottom of the page).

Best regards,

David Hock
FHI
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