United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contributions to international population programs.

PIP: In the 8 years since the inception of the population program of the United Sates Agency for International Development (AID) in 1965, the program has provided approximately $500 million for support of population and family planning projects and programs in developing countries. This is more than 1/2 of all the international population program assistance provided from all sources during those years. When the sum is divided by the target population of 2 billion people, $125 million per year equals 6 cents per capita, or 30 cents per woman of reproductive age. The money is used to develop: 1) demographic and social data, 2) population policy, 3) fertility control research, 4) family planning services, 5) information, education, and communications systems, and 6) manpower and supportive institutions. It is postulated that with continued strong support from the United States and increasing contributions from other countries, it should be possible for the world community to move most of the way toward making family planning information and the most effective and acceptable means of fertility control fully available to all persons of reproductive age in the developing world during the current decade.

PMID: 4788242 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]