
Increasing Access to Global Family Planning
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
A global family planning conference in London to discuss better access. More than 200 million women of reproductive age in developing countries would like to avoid pregnancy, but are not using modern contraception.
Plus, Amara Kanu - entrepreneur, fitness guru...and wife of football legend, Nwankwo Kanu on how to live a healthier life and how sea weed is destroying the livelihoods of coastal communities - fishermen and women, and blighting tourism.
(Photo: A woman waits for a consultation in the Monrovia township of West Point, Credit: Marco Longari/ AFP/ Getty Images)
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- Tue 11 Jul 201719:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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Focus on Africa
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.


