CSIS Delegation Examines Family Planning in Ethiopia

From Commission on Smart Global Health Policy Thu Feb 27 2014, 15:15:16

The Government of Ethiopia has recognized the importance of family planning for women's health and empowerment and for achieving broader health and development goals for the country. Political commitment is high and significant progress has been made, but Ethiopia faces complex challenges in reaching their ambitious goal to expand contraceptive prevalence to 66% by 2015. For these reasons, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center chose to take a U.S. delegation to Ethiopia to examine family planning as a cross-cutting development issue.

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