More than 222 million women worldwide want to avoid pregnancy, but are not using a modern method of contraception. Enabling couples to determine whether, when and how often to have children is vital to safe motherhood and healthy families. Increasing access to reproductive health services, including voluntary family planning, has profound health, economic and social benefits for families and communities, such as: Protecting the health of women by reducing high-risk pregnancies. Protecting the health of children by allowing sufficient time between pregnancies. Fighting HIV and AIDS through providing information, counseling and access to male and female condoms. Reducing abortion. Supporting women’s rights and opportunities for education, employment and full participation in society. Mitigating the impact of population dynamics on economic growth, natural resources and state stability. Family planning could prevent up to 30 percent of the more than 287,000 maternal deaths that occur every year, by enabling women to delay their first pregnancy and space later pregnancies at the safest intervals. If all babies were born three years apart, the lives of 1.6 million children under the age of five would be saved each year.

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