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This is an important message from the Center for Health and Gender Equity!
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Action Alert Take Action Today
Dear U.S. Friends and Colleagues,
Earlier today we alerted you to the Financial Times' story on the fact that last month, Juan José Daboub, managing director of the World Bank, instructed Bank specialists to "remove all references to family planning from a proposal to fund efforts to combat the disease and fight poverty in Madagascar."
Now we have more news to report about Mr. Daboub's attack on family planning and we have a request for you to take action.
Next week, the World Bank Board of Directors is expected to meet to approve the Health, Nutrition and Population Strategy for the World Bank. The proposed document effectively omits all commitment to family planning Bank-funded operations. Anonymous, high-level sources in the World Bank told the Campaign for Transparent Management that managing director Daboub ordered that family planning be taken out of the strategy.
Experts believe that if the Health, Nutrition, and Population Strategy is approved as it is currently written, it will mean less funding and a lower level of priority for sexual and reproductive health and rights in development strategies around the world. This is especially problematic given the growing evidence that excluding it is not a matter of semantics but rather the result of a personal campaign against family planning being carried out by Daboub.
What can you do?
Fax a letter to and/or call Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and ask him to ask the U.S. representative to the Board to make sure that family planning, contraception, and sexual and reproductive health and rights are included in the Health, Nutrition and Population Strategy.
Fax for Secretary Paulson: 202-622-0073
Comment line: 202-622-6516
Thank you in advance for your support and solidarity on this urgent matter.
Serra Sippel
Deputy Director
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 910
Takoma Park, MD 20912
USA
Tel: 1.301.270.1182
Fax: 1.301.270.2052
www.genderhealth.org
www.pepfarwatch.org
www.preventionnow.net
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