543 - A Global Snapshot of Family Planning and Reproductive Freedom
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
As advocates from around the world gather at the International Conference on Family Planning in Thailand this week, what's the state of global reproductive rights? Megan Christofield, a project director and advisor at JHPIEGO, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the accessibility and prevalence of contraceptive use worldwide, where gains have been made and where things have been stagnant or even backslid in the last decade, and some game-changing new contraception options that could help avert many more millions of unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and maternal deaths.
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| 0:41.2 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Megan Christofield from Japago about the state of family |
| 0:46.2 | planning around the world as the 2022 International Conference on Family Planning begins |
| 0:51.7 | in Thailand. |
| 0:53.1 | Let's listen. |
| 0:56.9 | Megan Christofield, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:01.2 | Thanks so much, Stephanie. It's a pleasure to be here. Today I want to talk about family planning. |
| 1:07.4 | The International Conference on Family Planning, which is the largest gathering of its kind in the world, |
| 1:15.5 | will be starting any minute now. And I wanted to ask you really about sort of the state of family planning. I mean, what are we seeing right now? Yeah, thanks, Stephanie. And what an |
| 1:21.2 | exciting time it is. I agree. I just, you know, family planning is what I live and breathe and so many |
| 1:26.8 | others who are here coming to the conference. So these are really exciting times, family planning is what I live and breathe and so many others who are here coming |
| 1:28.4 | to the conference. So these are really exciting times in family planning and a lot of progress, |
| 1:33.3 | a lot of fresh updates in the field, but it's also a little bit precarious right now with political |
| 1:39.1 | shifts in the U.S. and around the world that are also creating a bit of a fragile environment |
| 1:43.9 | for family planning. |
| 1:46.1 | Maybe just to set the tone a little bit, when we're talking about family planning and making |
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