Want to Really Save Children’s Lives? Put Family Planning Funds into Malaria Prevention

By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. | March 30, 2011

The folks over at Population Research Institute have produced an excellent short video on how the US should fulfill its promise from 2008 to fully fund malaria programs.

The US has consistently given more money to family planning than malaria. If the controversial family planning funding was eliminated and some of that money was given to malaria efforts, this would achieve the original funding goal for malaria programs and would actually save many children’s lives.

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