The UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the support of UNFPA and other partners, hosted the international Family Planning Summit in London on 11 July. This Summit aims to launch a global movement and make a massive commitment to meet 120 million women’s unmet need for contraception by 2020, helping to save lives, transform communities and give more women the chance to determine their own future, especially in the world’s poorest countries. The main objectives are: to revitalize global commitments to family planning and access to contraceptives as a cost-effective and transformational development priority; to improve the access and distribution of contraceptive supplies; to remove and reduce barriers to family planning. See how the media are covering this issue. Following the Rio+20 Conference, many articles covered issues of reproductive rights: read more in the previous special focus.

• Africa: Beyond Contraceptive Controversy - Melinda Gates Bets on Pro-Life Policies (AllAfrica 23.07.2012)

• Who Can Possibly be Against 50 Million Fewer Abortions? (Huffington Post 23.07.2012)

• Exaggerated fears hinder family planning initiatives (The Citizen 21.07.2012)

• Pro-Life Opposition to Melinda Gates Population Summit Not Fading (Lifenews.comn 20.07.2012)

• Contraception: best for women, babies and the planet (The Conversation 18.07.2012)

• Taking Action On London Summit On Family Planning Outcomes (Global Health Hub 17.07.2012)

• Global ties needed in HIV and family planning services (17.07.2012 Financial Times)

• Africa: Women to Gain Access to Innovative Contraception (AllAfrica 17.07.2012)

• The Morning After: An Initial Assessment of the London Family Planning Summit (RH Reality Check 16.07.2012)

• Gates Foundation pledges $1 billion for contraceptives (Newsok 15.07.2012)

• Family Planning Unleashes the Girl Effect (Huffington Post 13.07.2012)

• Africa: Contraception Innovations Can 'Save Millions' (AllAfrica 13.07.2012)

• Tanzania: Family Planning Requires 140 Billion (AllAfrica 13.07.2012)

• The Family Planning Summit is Over. Now What? (A view from the cave 13.07.2012)

• Uganda: Summit Promises 4.6 Billion for Family Planning (AllAfrica 13.07.2012)

• London Summit on Family Planning (Global Health Hub 13.07.2012)

• Access to Contraception Helps Save Lives—and the Planet (Time 12.07.2012)

• Family Planning Summit Will Save 3 Million Children's Lives by 2020 (Huffington Post 12.07.2012)

• Rwanda: Family Planning Is a Collective Responsibility, Says Kagame (AllAfrica 12.07.2012)

• 2012 London Summit on Family Planning (Storify 12.07.2012)

• Ethiopia: Speech By Ethiopia's Minister of Health At the London Summit On Family Planning (Nazret.com 12.07.2012)

• Tanzania: Family Planning Vital for Development (AllAfrica 12.07.2012)

• Opinion pieces, blog posts address family planning issues ahead of London summit (News Medical 12.07.2012)

• CARE Commends Groundbreaking London Summit on Family Planning (CARE 11.07.2012)

• Melinda Gates Disagrees With Vatican On Contraception At London Family Planning Summit (VIDEO) (Huffington Post 11.07.2012)

• Breaking News: London Family Planning Summit Raises Billions for Women and Girls (Impatient Optimists 11.07.2012))

• Former UNFPA Leaders Praise London Summit as Transformative Moment for Family Planning (SFGate.com 11.07.2012)

• The London Family Planning Summit (Council on Foreign Relations - Blog 11.07.2012)

• 'Impatient Optimists' blog posts address family planning ahead of London summit (News Medical 11.07.2012)

• United Nations Foundation Commits to Making the Goals of the London Summit on Family Planning a Reality (Virtal Strategy Magazine 11.07.2012)

• Museveni in London for family planning global summit (Newvision.co.ug 11.07.2012)

• Family planning: London summit (DFID 11.072012)

• Family planning summit commits to trebling the number of women and girls’ lives saved by 2020 (News Medical 11.07.2012)

• London Family Planning Summit: British Government Backs Better Access To Contraception (Huffington Post 11.07.2012)

• Getting Ready for the London Summit on Family Planning (UN Dispatch 10.07.2012)

• Perspectives on the London Family Planning Summit 2012: Women's Human Rights Must Be at the Center of Family Planning (RH Reality Check 10.07.2012)

• Surgeon General of the United States Comments on Family Planning Summit in London (MarketWatch.com 10.07.2012)

• London Summit on Family Planning (USAID Impact blog 10.07.2012)

• Faith-based organizations to make new commitments at London Family Planning Summit (The Washington Post 10.07.2012)

• Africa: London Summit Aims to Saves Lives With Family Planning (AllAfrica 10.07.2012)

• Perspectives on the London Family Planning Summit 2012: Seeing the Forest and the Trees(RH Reality Check 10.07.2012)

• Family Planning Summit: dilemmas of UK exceptionalism, private v public and population control (From Poverty to Power - Blog 10.07.2012)

• London Summit on Family Planning 2012 (Marie Stopes International 10.07.2012)

• Ireland not invited to world summit on family planning (Thejournal.ie 10.07.2012)

• Rwanda: London Summit to Focus On Investing in Family Planning (AllAfrica 10.07.2012)

• Melinda Gates on providing contraception for women worldwide (Marketplace.org 10.07.2012)

• London Summit on Family Planning to halve number of women without access to contraceptives (The Independent 10.07.2012)

• Family planning is central to global development according to new evidence in the Lancet (New Medical 10.07.2012)

• Melinda Gates: Give women the power to determine their future (CNN 09.07.2012)

• FT HEALTH Sexual & Reproductive Health (FT Special Report - PDF 09.07.2012)

• Tanzania: Kikwete for London Family Planning Summit (AllAfrica 09.07.2012)

• London Family Planning Summit Puts Population Control Above Health Care (Lifenews.com 09.07.2012)

• Finding Common Ground to Save the Lives of Women and Child and Create Happy, Healthy Families (Huffington Post 09.07.2012)

• Global contraceptives funds sought (News.com.au 09.07.2012)

• Kaiser Family Foundation (Planners Defend Goals Of London Summit On Family Planning 09.07.2012)

• Time for Canadian leadership on international family planning (Canada.com 09.07.2012)

• How to teach... family planning (The Guardian 09.07.2012)

• Aid Worker Diaries - CARE’s top 10 tips for world leaders attending the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning (AlertNet 09.07.2012)

• Global Motherhood: Pushing For Family Planning To Save Lives (Huffington POst 09.07.2012)

• Global family planning pledge (On Medica 09.07.2012)

• Melinda Gates slams religious groups for criticising bid to bring birth control to developing world (Dailymail.co.uk 08.07.2012)

• Melinda Gates hits out at 'war on women' on eve of summit (The Guardian 07.07.2012)

• Family planning, small arms in Kenya and Rio+20 reasons to be cheerful (The Guardian 03.07.2012)

• UNFPA to Work with UK Government and Gates Foundation to Give 120 Million More Women Access to Family Planning by 2020 (PRWEB 02.07.2012)

• COMMENTARY: The case for family planning that Rio+20 forgot (People & Planet 02.07.2012)

• Nigeria: Family Planning On the International Agenda (AllAfrica 26.06.2012)

• UK: Family Planning Summit Should Spotlight Rights (HRW 19.06.2012)