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Article: United States: UN and World Bank voice concerns about funding for family planning.
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- July 4, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
Family planning and other reproductive health services for women have fallen off the development radar of many poor countries, donors and aid agencies, according to the United Nations and the World Bank, which are warning of the impact this will have on already high maternal mortality rates.
New preliminary figures from the World Bank show that official global development aid for health increased from $2.9 billion in 1995 to $14.1 billion in 2007, or roughly a five-fold increase in 12 years.
During the same period, aid for population and reproductive health made a more modest increase from $901 million to $1.9 billion.
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