2nd International Conference On Family Planning Concludes in Senegal

The 2nd International Conference on Family Planning ended on Friday in Dakar, Senegal, Ghana Business News reports, noting that more than 2,200 people attended the conference to "shar[e] research, best practices, and progress on national strategies to deliver family planning services, with the ultimate goal being universal access to family planning." The news service notes that UNFPA requested an "acceleration in funding for [family planning] activities to make decisive progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goal 5" (12/3). In related news, the Guardian examines family planning in Dakar, which was chosen to host the conference "because this is what one conference participant called 'the wild, wild west of family planning,'" according to the newspaper (Boseley, 12/2).