More than 200 Million Women Worldwide Will Need Contraception By 2015
LatestAlthough the percentage of women with steady sexual partners who use at least one contraceptive method has grown significantly over the past two decades — from 55 percent in 1990 to 63 percent in 2010 — 233 million women around the world will lack for contraception by 2015, according to a new United Nations study.
The study, published Monday in The Lancet, focused on partnered-up women age 15-49 because they constitute large proportion of the women who are “at risk” for pregnancy, according to study author Dr. Ann Biddlecom, chief of the fertility and family planning section at the U.N. Population Division.