Amid USAID’s dismantling, the narrative around reproductive health and family planning needs to change, making it more central to global development, a panel of experts told Devex.
The recent U.S. aid cuts “are a wake-up call to say, ‘Why have we not been prioritizing health financing in general and reproductive health financing in particular?’” said Dr. Samukeliso Dube, executive director of FP2030, at a Devex event last week in Geneva, Switzerland, during the World Health Assembly.
“It’s about human beings,” she said. “So why do we deprioritize it when it’s inconvenient?”