Family Planning

Family Planning (1968).mp4

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Duration: 10:22
Updated: 30 May 2012

Rare educational/propaganda cartoon from 1968.

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How to Practice Natural Family Planning

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Duration: 2:30
Updated: 01 Oct 2010

Watch more How to Get Pregnant videos: http://www.howcast.com/guides/432-How-to-Get-Pregnant Subscribe to Howcast's YouTube Channel - http://howc.st/uLaHRS Learn how to practice natural family planning by tracking your fertility so you'll know when you're ovulating. Howcast uploads the highest quality how-to videos daily! Be sure to check out our playlists for guides that interest you: http://howc.st/ytmainplaylists Subscribe to Howcast's other YouTube Channels: Howcast Health Channel - http://howc.st/HOE3aY Howcast Video Games Channel - http://howc.st/tYKKrk Howcast Tech Channel - http://howc.st/rx9FwR Howcast Food Channel - http://howc.st/umBoJX Howcast Arts & Recreation Channel - http://howc.st/vmB86i Howcast Sports & Fitness Channel - http://howc.st/vKjUjm Howcast Personal Care & Style Channel - http://howc.st/vbbNt3 Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how. Emphasizing high-quality instructional videos, Howcast brings you experts who provide accurate information in easy-to-follow tutorials on everything from makeup, hairstyling, nail art design, and soccer to parkour, skateboarding, dancing, kissing, and much, much more. Step 1: Know what natural family planning is Know what natural family planning is: monitoring your ovulation cycle, and planning sexual intercourse accordingly. Tip Track your patterns for at least one menstrual cycle before relying on such a practice for birth control. Step 2: Consider the mucus method Consider the cervical mucus method, also known as the Billings ovulation method. You're most fertile when your mucus is clear and slippery, like raw egg white, which lasts about four days. If you don't want to get pregnant, be aware that you can conceive in the three or so days before and after, too, for a total of about 10 potentially fertile days. Tip Assessing mucus viscosity can be tricky; a medical professional can help teach you. Step 3: Take your temperature Try the basal body temperature method: maintain a graph of your daily temperature, taking it every morning before you get out of bed. When you're ovulating, your temperature may rise slightly -- typically less than 1 degree Fahrenheit -- and stay that way for a few days. Abstain from unprotected sex from the start of your period until five days after your temperature rises. Tip For accuracy, take your temperature at the same time every morning, and get at least six hours of uninterrupted sleep. Disturbed sleep affects body temperature. Step 4: Consider the rhythm method If you have regular menstrual cycles that last between 26 and 32 days, consider the rhythm method, also known as the calendar method. To practice it, subtract 18 from the total number of days in your shortest cycle, and subtract 11 from the total number of days in your longest cycle. To help prevent pregnancy, forgo unprotected sex on the days within that range, usually from the eighth day after your period begins through the 19th or 20th day. Tip Consider using cycle beads -- 33 colored beads that help you keep track of safe and unsafe days. Step 5: Know the success rates If preventing pregnancy is your goal, be aware that natural family planning's success rate can vary, especially if not followed perfectly. Effectiveness is between 75 and 88 percent for "typical" practice. Did You Know? A University of Chicago sociologist found that among 500 couples who used natural family planning, the divorce rate was less than 1 percent.

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Family Planning

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Duration: 4:37
Updated: 14 Jan 2010

A short comedy film with a serious message about the importance of planned parenthood.

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Family Planning & Methods of Contraception by Dr Jeetendra C

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Duration: 6:43
Updated: 24 Feb 2011

Methods of Contraception Lecture By Our Beloved Teacher Dr Jeetendra C. Our Site www.medicinembbs.blogspot.com

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Pepper Rabbit - Family Planning

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Duration: 3:54
Updated: 21 Aug 2011

Track#5 off new album 'Red Velvet Snow Ball' out in Aug, 2011 www.myspace.com/pepperrabbit http://kaninerecords.com/6769 indiemusik@ http://on.fb.me/qsdxRE

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What is Family Planning?

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Updated: 21 Oct 2008

NFPRHA went to Pittsburgh to talk to folks at the Adagio, a Title X health center. Adagio and thousands of other health centers around the country provide valuable reproductive health care services to women and men every day. The folks at Adagio are in the business of saving lives.

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Where's the Controversy in Saving Lives?

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Duration: 1:44
Updated: 06 Jul 2012

Giving women and girls access to family planning tools and information is the easiest way to empower them to determine their own futures. Raise your voice and pledge to support family planning for the millions who need and want it: http://no-controversy.com.

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Improving Access to Family Planning | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Duration: 2:34
Updated: 11 Jul 2012

Providing family planning information and services to millions of women and girls in the poorest countries in the world gives them the opportunity to determine their own futures, and the best future for their children. This video played at the opening of the London Summit on Family Planning on July 11, 2012. The London Summit on Family Planning, is part of a new, coordinated effort to ensure that voluntary family planning services reach an additional 120 million women and girls in the world's poorest countries by 2020. More than 150 leaders from donor and developing countries, international agencies, civil society, foundations and the private sector also pledged their support to improving access to family planning information, services and supplies. Do you believe every girl and woman should have the opportunity to determine her own future? Spread the word that contraception is not controversial. Take the pledge, share your own story, and ask your online communities to do the same! http://no-controversy.com/

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Mothers of Malawi: Saving lives with family planning

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Duration: 5:06
Updated: 05 Jul 2012

Find out more at http://www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives One in four women in Malawi want to use lifesaving contraceptives but do not have access. Giving women and girls access to family planning services saves lives and helps lift families, communities and nations out of poverty. On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world's poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children. Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child. To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit

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Family Planning Saves Lives

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Duration: 4:12
Updated: 06 Jul 2012

The link between access to contraception and saving the lives of women and children is not an obvious one. This film explains this crucial connection, and helps you understand how to support Save the Children UK's campaign to ensure all women everywhere have the power to choose when and how many children they have. Lives depend on it. Give Girls Power. Girl Power Saves Lives. For more information visit http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/givegirlspower

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NEED TO KNOW | The family planning fight in Texas | PBS

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Duration: 12:14
Updated: 08 Mar 2013

Republican lawmakers in Texas have cut the state's family planning budget by two-thirds, forcing many clinics that focus on women's health to close across the state.

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DOCUMENTARY: NO FAMILY PLANNING IN PHILIPPINES. FILIPINO WOMEN USING HERBAL ABORTIFACIENTS

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Duration: 5:02
Updated: 16 Mar 2011

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/212021/the-consolidated-rh-bill-in-the-15th-congress SEC. 7. Access to Family Planning All accredited health facilities shall provide a full range of modern family planning methods, except in specialty hospitals which may render such services on optional basis. For poor patients, such services shall be fully covered by PhilHealth Insurance and/or government financial assistance on a no balance billing. After the use of any PhilHealth benefit involving childbirth and all other pregnancy-related services, if the beneficiary wishes to space or prevent her next pregnancy, PhilHealth shall pay for the full cost of family planning. SEC. 8. Maternal and Newborn Health Care in Crisis Situations Local government units and the Department of Health shall ensure that a Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for reproductive health, including maternal and neonatal health care kits and services as defined by the DOH, will be given proper attention in crisis situations such as disasters and humanitarian crises. MISP shall become part of all responses by national agencies at the onset of crisis and emergencies. Temporary facilities such as evacuation centers and refugee camps shall be equipped to respond to the special needs in the following situations: normal and complicated deliveries, pregnancy complications, miscarriage and post-abortion complications, spread of HIV/AIDS and STIs, and sexual and gender-based violence. SEC. 9. Maternal Death Review All Local Government Units (LGUs), national and local government hospitals, and other public health units shall conduct annual maternal death review in accordance with the guidelines set by the DOH. SEC. 10. Family Planning Supplies as Essential Medicines Products and supplies for modern family planning methods shall be part of the National Drug Formulary and the same shall be included in the regular purchase of essential medicines and supplies of all national and local hospitals and other government health units. SEC. 11. Procurement and Distribution of Family Planning Supplies The DOH shall spearhead the efficient procurement, distribution to Local Government Units (LGUs) and usage-monitoring of family planning supplies for the whole country. The DOH shall coordinate with all appropriate LGUs to plan and implement this procurement and distribution program. The supply and budget allotments shall be based on, among others, the current levels and projections of the following: "(a) number of women of reproductive age and couples who want to space or limit their children; "(b) contraceptive prevalence rate, by type of method used; and "(c) Cost of family planning supplies. SEC. 12. Integration of Family Planning and Responsible Parenthood Component in Anti-Poverty Programs A multi-dimensional approach shall be adopted in the implementation of policies and programs to fight poverty. Towards this end, the DOH shall endeavor to integrate a family planning and responsible parenthood component into all anti-poverty programs of government, with corresponding fund support. The DOH shall provide such programs technical support, including capacity-building and monitoring. READ MORE... http://www.gmanews.tv/story/212021/the-consolidated-rh-bill-in-the-15th-congress

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Natural Family Planning - Introduction / Educational Video

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Duration: 51:58
Updated: 05 Jan 2009

Natural Family Planning - Introduction / Educational Video. From the public domain. There are many different reasons that couples choose to learn Natural Family Planning — some like its high effectiveness rate, others appreciate that it is safe and healthy for the woman, and still others are glad to find a method of spacing births that fits with their religious beliefs. Couples choose to practice Natural Family Planning for a variety of reasons. Important to many people is the issue of morality. The services of the League are open to all regardless of religious affiliation or conviction, but that doesnt mean that we teach NFP without moral and religious convictions. First, we believe that God is the Author of nature; He is the one who put together in the marriage act what we call "making love" and "making babies." It is God who in His providence has allowed us to learn in the late 20th century about womans alternating fertility and infertility — and about Natural Family Planning — at the same time that other medical advances greatly increased the population survival rate. NFP allows couples to prudently regulate births without recourse to unnatural, immoral methods of birth control that interfere with the way God designed our fertility. As astonishing as this statement may seem, throughout history natural methods have never been less effective than the unnatural, non-surgical methods. (Moral methods may not be as convenient, and they do require self-control, but that is a wonderful and rewarding virtue to acquire, as many NFP couples will attest.) In the 1930s the Ogino-Knaus Rhythm Method of NFP was as effective as the most effective "new" contraceptive barrier methods. In the 1960s, when the Pill launched the Sexual Revolution, the Sympto-Thermal Method of NFP (as taught by CCL today) was as effective as the Pill. Religious and moral convictions guide anyones decisions about sexual behavior. We believe that when people are fully informed about the advantages of NFP they will see that this method best agrees with their convictions as well as their practical desires for happier marriages and healthier lives. NFP does not mean "Not for Protestants." You dont have to be Catholic to have strong convictions that it is wrong to use unnatural methods of birth control. "Such 'providentialists' should at least learn the rules for ecological breastfeeding, God's own way of spacing babies." For a better understanding of the moral issue of birth control and to find out the true position of the Catholic Church on this matter, please see Church Teachings on NFP. and especially the full text of Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (On Human Life).However, while they often learn NFP for a single reason, most couples are happily surprised to find that there are other advantages to using NFP that they never suspected. Weve compiled here the various reasons couples have told us theyre glad to have found NFP. Natural Family Planning is fertility awareness, the knowledge of a couple's fertility. It is a means of reading a woman's signs of fertility and infertility. The Couple to Couple League teaches three basic signs of fertility — temperature, mucus and cervix — and how to apply this knowledge through the Sympto-Thermal Method (STM) of NFP, which can be used both to achieve and to avoid or postpone pregnancy. With the Couple to Couple League, the art of Natural Family Planning goes beyond the method as we teach NFP within the moral constructs of the Magesterium of the Catholic Church, with an emphasis on the teachings of Pope John Paul II and the Theology of the Body. Couples learn of God's vision and plan for marriage and family, and how to live out their sexuality while upholding and respecting the dignity of each other and their union. A married couple's virtuous application of their fertility awareness knowledge, either to try to achieve a pregnancy or to postpone a pregnancy, is called responsible parenthood. The Natural Family Planning also includes the return of fertility after childbirth. CCL promotes and encourages exclusive and continued breastfeeding as best for babies, couples, and families and provides information and instruction on how these practices can impact the return of fertility and be a part of responsible parenthood. Finally, CCL helps couples complete their Natural Family Planning journey with instruction on navigating the changing fertility status of the premenopause years.

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euronews reporter - Uganda family planning: 'Choice not chance'

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Duration: 8:25
Updated: 07 Sep 2012

http://www.euronews.com/ In Uganda today family planning is at the top of the agenda. At the moment there are 34 million citizens but the country has one of the fastest growing populations anywhere in the world. On average each woman will give birth to six children. In villages and communities people gather to listen the presenters of Heart Radio Uganda. Their talk show discusses family planning, covering topics such as contraceptive injections, condoms and how to avoid teenage pregnancy. It offers people the chance to call in with their questions, and also stimulates debate in the community. John Baptist Muweesi is one of the presenters. "It is very useful, he says. "All of the people in this community own phones, then people call, ask questions, give views, then the expert on the studio answers those questions." This is one of the UN Population Fund initiatives to provide information about birth control to the people of Uganda. Jackie Kasande, a Ugandan single mother who has been helped by the show, said: "When I was 19 I had just completed my A-level exams when I got pregnant. I decided not to abort. I gave birth to my son and afterwards I thought of ways to go back to school. So I went back to school and I used family planning methods not to mess up again." There are many reasons for the high birth rate, but it hinges on tradition, religious beliefs, polygamy and early marriage. In Uganda large families are seen as a source of prestige and wealth, some also see child labour is a useful source of income. We met Prossy a 37-year-old mother of seven children. She actually had one more but he died just after birth. She now has a contraceptive implant which should protect her from unwanted pregnancy for the next three years. She told us that she wishes she had known about this earlier. We joined her as she made the one hour walk to a nearby village. There are many others who have walked for an entire day to get there, for the monthly visit of the Marie Stopes team. The Marie Stopes organisation provides approximately 25 percent of family planning services in Uganda. Their outreach teams visit remote places, attracting clients from many kilometres around. People first sit through a lesson, learning about the methods and the benefits of avoiding teenage pregnancy, spacing births and planning family size. The medics perform on the spot permanent sterilisations, as well as dispensing medium and long term contraceptives. The most popular is the Depo-Provera injection which lasts for three months. This is what Prossy is asking for as she complains her arm implant is giving her headaches. One of the nurses, Marie Kansiime, explained they face a huge task: "We need more support. Sometimes you find the number is overwhelming. We leave work at around 7.00 or 8.00 pm, so you see that there is a need for these mothers." The high birth rate is also a consequence of major gender inequalities. Many men are unwilling to let their wives access family planning services as they see it as an attack on their manhood. To try to bring them on board the UN Population Fund promotes 'men's action groups', where they can discuss the issue freely. Byaliuhanga Brazaville, a local teacher, told us of the stigma family planning faces: "The majority of people, especially men, think that if they are put on family planning methods their manhood can reduce and they end up not producing any more." We met Charles Kuwuma, what is known as a 'Champion' with the UN Population Fund. The Champions are selected as good examples for the community and charged with spreading the message about birth control. He told us about some of the myths surrounding family planning: "You still have misconceptions, if you use family planning you produce children with very big heads, family planning causes cancer, if you use family planning methods you produce a child with abnormalities. We still have those challenges but the life they live in, people have unmanageable families. People have a lot of problems, unplanned pregnancies, fistula, abortions, people throw their children in the pig latrines, others are getting out of the schools. So we have to come out strongly to help our people!" Charles took us to meet Grace Nampigga in the small village of Sekende. Find us on: Youtube http://bit.ly/zr3upY Facebook http://www.facebook.com/euronews.fans Twitter http://twitter.com/euronews

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Family Planning

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Duration: 6:11
Updated: 04 Sep 2012

Community health workers and a young couple discuss family planning. Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/halftheskymovement Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/half Join the Movement: http://www.halftheskymovement.org/

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Family Planning | everymothercounts.org

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Duration: 7:18
Updated: 22 Feb 2011

Family planning is a critical upfront investment to good maternal health. This educational video from Every Mother Counts explores how family planning affects maternal health around the world.

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Natural Family Planning Explained - GR NFP Mini Contest 2012

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Updated: 14 Jul 2012

This video is a submission of the Goodness Reigns 2012 Video Mini-Contest on Natural Family Planning. Learn more about Goodness Reigns and how you can participate to win great prizes in upcoming contests at http://www.goodnessreigns.com For more information on NFP, read "6 Incentives To Consider Natural Family Planning" at http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2012/07/19/nfp/. Video Description: Living in "the real world" as a faithful Catholic usually brings on a torrent of opposition. How would you respond to someone if they professed absolute trust in contraceptives? What would you say about Natural Family Planning and its benefits? Here's a short blip on my take of the potential situation. Contest: The 2012 Goodness Reigns Mini Contest - Natural Family Planning Created By: Leah Chen Location: Binghamton, New York, USA Producer Bio: Raised Roman Catholic and one of six children, Leah is a college student and currently discerning religious life. She enjoys adding new videos to her YouTube channel 'SheisCatholic' as well as keeping up with pro-life work in the community. In her spare time, Leah enjoys drawing, playing the piano and pretending she's somewhat athletic by trying to run more than two miles. Credits: All components of the video, such as script, editing and music, were created and put into character by Leah 'SheisCatholic'

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Natural Family Planning - Educational Video

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Duration: 6:57
Updated: 16 Nov 2008

Natural Family Planning. Courtesy of http://www.nfponline.org. There are many different reasons that couples choose to learn Natural Family Planning — some like its high effectiveness rate, others appreciate that it is safe and healthy for the woman, and still others are glad to find a method of spacing births that fits with their religious beliefs. Couples choose to practice Natural Family Planning for a variety of reasons. Important to many people is the issue of morality. The services of the League are open to all regardless of religious affiliation or conviction, but that doesnt mean that we teach NFP without moral and religious convictions. First, we believe that God is the Author of nature; He is the one who put together in the marriage act what we call "making love" and "making babies." It is God who in His providence has allowed us to learn in the late 20th century about womans alternating fertility and infertility — and about Natural Family Planning — at the same time that other medical advances greatly increased the population survival rate. NFP allows couples to prudently regulate births without recourse to unnatural, immoral methods of birth control that interfere with the way God designed our fertility. As astonishing as this statement may seem, throughout history natural methods have never been less effective than the unnatural, non-surgical methods. (Moral methods may not be as convenient, and they do require self-control, but that is a wonderful and rewarding virtue to acquire, as many NFP couples will attest.) In the 1930s the Ogino-Knaus Rhythm Method of NFP was as effective as the most effective "new" contraceptive barrier methods. In the 1960s, when the Pill launched the Sexual Revolution, the Sympto-Thermal Method of NFP (as taught by CCL today) was as effective as the Pill. Religious and moral convictions guide anyones decisions about sexual behavior. We believe that when people are fully informed about the advantages of NFP they will see that this method best agrees with their convictions as well as their practical desires for happier marriages and healthier lives. NFP does not mean "Not for Protestants." You dont have to be Catholic to have strong convictions that it is wrong to use unnatural methods of birth control. "Such 'providentialists' should at least learn the rules for ecological breastfeeding, God's own way of spacing babies." For a better understanding of the moral issue of birth control and to find out the true position of the Catholic Church on this matter, please see Church Teachings on NFP. and especially the full text of Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (On Human Life).However, while they often learn NFP for a single reason, most couples are happily surprised to find that there are other advantages to using NFP that they never suspected. Weve compiled here the various reasons couples have told us theyre glad to have found NFP. Natural Family Planning is fertility awareness, the knowledge of a couple's fertility. It is a means of reading a woman's signs of fertility and infertility. The Couple to Couple League teaches three basic signs of fertility — temperature, mucus and cervix — and how to apply this knowledge through the Sympto-Thermal Method (STM) of NFP, which can be used both to achieve and to avoid or postpone pregnancy. With the Couple to Couple League, the art of Natural Family Planning goes beyond the method as we teach NFP within the moral constructs of the Magesterium of the Catholic Church, with an emphasis on the teachings of Pope John Paul II and the Theology of the Body. Couples learn of God's vision and plan for marriage and family, and how to live out their sexuality while upholding and respecting the dignity of each other and their union. A married couple's virtuous application of their fertility awareness knowledge, either to try to achieve a pregnancy or to postpone a pregnancy, is called responsible parenthood. The Natural Family Planning also includes the return of fertility after childbirth. CCL promotes and encourages exclusive and continued breastfeeding as best for babies, couples, and families and provides information and instruction on how these practices can impact the return of fertility and be a part of responsible parenthood. Finally, CCL helps couples complete their Natural Family Planning journey with instruction on navigating the changing fertility status of the premenopause years.

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Laparoscopy Tubectomy Video - Lap Family Planning Surgery

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Duration: 4:04
Updated: 15 Jun 2007

Dr.K. Ramesh Naidu MS FAIS ---- Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India Vizag: ---- Web: www.lapsurgeonindia.com -- Mobile: +91-98491-27287 --www.lapindia.com Laparoscopy Tubectomy Video - Lap Family Planning Surgery -- Laparoscopic Female Sterilization Operation

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Diocese of Phoenix Natural Family Planning Promo Video

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Duration: 6:28
Updated: 30 Aug 2009

This video is intended to give a brief glimpse behind the truth about NFP as seen through the eyes of real couples actually practicing and teaching its beautiful gift to marriages.

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Natural Family Planning

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Duration: 11:23
Updated: 08 Dec 2011

Mercedes Arzu Wilson warns about the dangers of artificial methods of family planning, offering a solution: The Billings Method.

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Family Planning: A Unique Opportunity for Change

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Duration: 4:05
Updated: 18 Jul 2012

On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with UNFPA and other partners hosted the London Summit on Family Planning to mobilize global policy, financing, commodity, and service delivery commitments to support the rights of an additional 120 million women and girls in the world's poorest countries to use contraceptive information, services and supplies, without coercion or discrimination, by 2020. This video shows clips from the summit and interviews with partners discussing the importance of family planning http://www.LondonFamilyPlanningSummit.co.uk

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Family Planning as an Economic Investment Strategy

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Duration: 2:59
Updated: 14 Dec 2012

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. The United Nations Population Fund says greater access to family planning methods would save developing countries more than $11 billion a year. A new UN report says the savings would come from reduced costs of care for mothers and newborn babies. The "State of World Population 2012" report was released in November. It says over 200 million women in the developing world cannot get birth control or other family planning services. It says $4 billion a year could provide these women with reproductive information to reduce unplanned pregnancies or unsafe abortions. The report says about $2 billion a year would provide enough contraceptives to meet the needs of developing countries. The report says increased access to family planning is a good economic investment. It says having fewer children has been beneficial for rich countries in Europe and North America. The UN Population Fund says one-third of the growth of Asia's "tiger" economies is the result of increased use of family planning services. Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the biggest unmet needs for family planning services. The report says modern contraceptives are not widely available in countries such as Chad and Niger. But contraceptives are not enough. There are social, political and legal barriers that prevent access to birth control. In many cultures, women are encouraged to have large families and to avoid or limit the use of contraceptives.The Population Fund says family planning helps countries reduce poverty. A recent study said Nigeria's economy would grow by at least $30 billion dollars if the fertility rate fell by just one child per woman in the next 20 years. For VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 21Nov2012)

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Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates at the World Economic Forum in 2011
Born	Melinda Ann French (1964-08-15) August 15, 1964 (age 47) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Residence	Medina, Washington, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Duke University
Occupation	Co-Chair, operator of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Religion	Roman Catholic
Spouse	Bill Gates (m. 1994)
Children	Jennifer Katharine Gates - (b. 1996) Rory John Gates - (b. 1999) Phoebe Adele Gates - (b. 2002)
Website
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Home Page

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Name	Gates, Melinda French
Alternative names	French, Melinda Ann
Short description	American philanthropist
Date of birth	1964-08-15
Place of birth	Dallas, Texas, U.S.
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