“This is a really (remarkable) public health success story that I think doesn’t get featured with all the other kinds of success we’ve had in eliminating some diseases and so forth. But the story is not complete yet. There’s still a (considerable) amount of unintended fertility, especially in some parts of Asia and Africa.

“What are the prospects now looking (forward) that we can address that level of unwanted fertility? Well, on a hopeful side we know that there are very high levels of unmet need for family planning. So if we were to satisfy that unmet need, various analyses show we would go a long way towards achieving the reduction in birth rates that are required to achieve global population stabilization.

“On the less hopeful side, we’ve been (successively) underinvesting in family planning internationally. As the number, actually, of women in need has grown, the investment has declined.”