Locator: 48838CONTRACEPTIVES.
I think there are much bigger issues here than the $160,000 it will cost to carry out this "initiative."
For one thing, I would be asking why was the U.S.A.I.D. stockpiling almost $10 million worth of contraceptives in the first place? Why incur that extra cost in Belgium? Why not contract to sent contraceptives directly from supplier to user? One wonders how much of the $10 million was going to line the pockets of middlemen and middlewomen (would they be midwives)?
The next question: to what extent were African nations -- many of them Muslim -- interested in American-supplied contraceptives?
And that's just a start.
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My Winter On The Nile, Charles Dudley Warner, c. 1876.
