New York Times Columnist Calls For Investments In Global Family Planning

Although topics such as AIDS, tsunamis and earthquakes make for “dramatic” and “visceral” news about the developing world, there is “a far more widespread challenge, one that’s also more fixable: the unavailability of birth control in many poor countries,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. Kristof notes that the birth control pill, “50 years old this month in the [U.S…

Opinions: Obstetric Fistula; Malaria And Climate Change

Fistula Hospital Plan Is A Great Investment For American Foreign Aid In a New York Times opinion piece, columnist Nicholas Kristof examines a new plan to tackle obstetric fistula, “a childbirth injury, often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully grown.

Successful Family Planning Efforts Essential To Alleviating Global Poverty, Elevating Women, Opinion Piece Says

Efforts to curb global poverty “won’t get far” without more effective family planning efforts in developing countries with limited financial resources, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes in an opinion piece.

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