There are 216m women worldwide who want contraception but lack access to it. Supplying it would cost $3.6bn but save $432bn annually.
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Replying to @seldo
@seldo@Meowdip this is why Buffett's IUD investment is so tremendous http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/warren-buffett-s-family-secretly-funded-a-birth-control-revolution …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @starsandrobots
@seldo@Meowdip you also see problems like fistula elsewhere that so long ago stopped being a problem in dev world we've forgotten entirely1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@seldo@Meowdip there are something like <300 gynecologists in all of Ethiopia. Population 94M people. Mostly practicing in the capitol.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@seldo@Meowdip and that's with a land area eq. to Spain + France + Germany combined, worse road infrastructure.. so much could be done1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@seldo @Meowdip (via https://www.fistulafoundation.org/countries-we-help/ethiopia/ … & a college project I worked on looked at addressing that in particular)
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