UK summit marks family planning rebirth
[Johannesburg, 27 July 2012] -
As the world turns its attention to Washington for the International AIDS conference, Mantshi Teffo-Menziwa wants everyone to remember the lessons of “the single most important family planning event in history”, the UK Summit on Family Planning.Teffo-Menziwa is the director of clinical quality and training at Marie Stopes South Africa, a non-profit sexual and reproductive health organisation. We are so proud that she, a woman, a nurse, a PhD candidate and an ardent advocate of sexual and reproductive healthcare, represented civil society at the London Summit on Family Planning earlier this month. She was the third member of the South African delegation, accompanying Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and Deputy Director-General Dr Yogan Pillay.The summit, hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), brought together international partners on an issue that, despite being neglected for decades, has a crucial role to play if the Millennium Development Goals for maternal health, eradication of poverty, education and gender equality are to be achieved.
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