Opinions: Family Planning; U.S. Food Aid

Comprehensive Family Planning Approach Needed, Not Just ‘Contraceptive Dispensary’ In his latest New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof writes about the “unavailability of birth control in many poor countries,” noting some experiences from a recent trip to Africa. “So the pill, 50 years old this month in the United States, has yet to reach parts of Africa…

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…