JUST THE NUMBERS The Impact of US International Family Planning Assistance, 2023 Investments in sexual and reproductive health and rights have far-reaching and measurable benefits. [...] Advocates recommend that the United States provide $1.74 billion for international bilateral and multilateral family planning and reproductive health programs, including $116 million for UNFPA.2 These levels represent the annual sum needed for the United States to contribute its fair share of the cost of addressing family planning needs worldwide. [...] JUST THE NUMBERS The Impact of US International Family Planning Assistance, 2023 The graphic shows the benefits of the current and increased US investments in terms of the estimated number of unintended pregnancies, unplanned births, unsafe abortions and maternal deaths averted. [...] If the United States increased its investment to the recommended $1.74 billion, compared with the current investment, the programs would serve an additional 60.6 million women and couples, the estimated number of unintended pregnancies averted would increase from 8.1 million to 28.4 million and the number of maternal deaths prevented would increase from 14,000 to 49,000. [...] Methodology and sources Estimates of the impacts of current and increased investment were calculated by dividing family planning allocations to countries and USAID regional offices for FY 2022 by estimated 2019 country-level per-user impacts, which come from the most recent comprehensive analysis of costs and impacts of family planning in low- and middle-income countries.3–5 Impacts per user were.
- Pages
- 2
- Published in
- United States of America
