The UK has cut its funding to the United Nation s Population Fund (UNFPA) by a devastating 85 per cent, the agency announced on Thursday.
Britain, traditionally the UNFPA s largest contributor, will donate £23 million this year (€26.5 million) down from an expected commitment of £154 million (€177 million).
The UN agency aims at improving reproductive and maternal health worldwide, providing access to contraceptives, supplies for safe pregnancies and abortions and training for health workers.
It said in a statement that the UK s retreat from agreed commitments made to the programme in 2020 will be devastating for women and girls and their families across the world. With the now withdrawn £130 million (€149.5 million), the UNFPA Supplies Partnership would have helped prevent around 250,000 maternal and child deaths, 14.6 million unintended pregnancies and 4.3 million unsafe abortions, it added.
Participants during the launch at the program.
The Swedish Government through the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) has extended its Youth Friendly Centre that provides education to both boys and girls on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) to Sinoe County.
The decision to extend the BRAC implemented program comes shortly after joint members of a high delegation that included Ingrid Wetterqvist, Swedish Ambassador to Liberia, UNFPA Country Representative, Dr. Bannet Ndyanabangi, and Assistant Minister for Curative Services, Ministry of Health, Dr. Gorbee Logan, gathered many positive success stories from Grand Gedeh and River Gee counties where there is reportedly a huge reduction in teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality.
#BTEditorial – The need to have more Bajan babies
Article by April 15, 2021
It was not uncommon in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and even into the early 2000s to hear and read commentaries suggesting that Barbados was over-populated. In fact, the popular belief was that women in Barbados were having too many children, particularly single mothers who struggled to provide the basic necessities.
In rural districts, family homes, with two or three generations of family members were the norm. No eyebrows were raised in condemnation of a woman with seven, eight, nine or ten children.
But highly successful Barbados Family Planning campaigns over the years to educate women on the importance of taking control of their bodies and making decisions regarding the size of their families reaped significant rewards.
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