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Aid to reproductive health care and family planning remains low Official development assistance to health, total (constant 2010 US$ millions) and proportion going to reproductive health care and family planning, 2000-2010 (Percentage) Millions
Percentage Total aid to health (constant 2010 USD millions)
20,000
20,002
Aid to reproductive health care (percentage)
18,660
18,066
50
16,872
Aid to family planning (percentage)
40
15,427
15,000 12,500 30 9,701
10,000
10,030
7,716 6,554
5,000
20
6,338 11.5
9.3
10.7 6.1
8.4 5.7
5.6 3.2
0 2000
2001
2002
2003
8.5 6.5
5.1
1.0
1.8
1.3
2004
2005
2006
Funding for family planning services and supplies is key to closing the gap in meeting the demand for contraception. Yet aid for family planning as a proportion of total aid for health declined over the past decade, with only a small resurgence between 2009 and 2010, from 2.5 to 3.2 per cent of total aid for health. Funding necessary to meet
7.0
7.6
3.2
2007
10 5.7
6.2
3.3
2.5
3.2
2008
2009
2010
0
the demand for contraceptives is especially relevant, given the growing number of reproductive age women and of those wishing to use contraceptives in the developing regions.