Abstract
Since its inception in 1965, and especially since passage of the Title X Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act in 1968, the population program of the United States Agency for International Development (AID) has grown rapidly to become the principal source of assistance to population and family planning programs in developing countries. At the current annual level of $125 million, AID provides more than 60 per cent of the resources available for international population program assistance. AID obligations for this program now total more than $0.5 billion. This paper describes the allocation of these resources by six functional categories: (a) demographic and social data, (b) population policy, (c) fertility control research, (d) family planning services, (e) information, education, and communication systems, and (f) manpower and supportive institutions. Noteworthy projects in each category are discussed. With continued strong support from the United States and increasing contributions from other countries, it should be possible for the world community to make great strides toward making family planning information, and the most effective and acceptable means of fertility control fully available to all persons of reproductive age in the developing world during the current decade.
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