On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/melinda-gates-new-crusade-investing-billions-in-women-s-health.html > > Melinda Gates’ New Crusade: Investing Billions in Women's Health > May 7, 2012 1:00 AM EDT > > They were talking about Depo-Provera, which is popular in many poor > countries because women need to take it only four times a year, and > because they can hide it, if necessary, from unsupportive husbands. As > Gates discovered, injectable contraceptives, like many other forms of > birth control, are frequently out of stock in clinics in the developing > world, a result of both funding shortages and supply-chain problems. > > Although the article does mention it, it seems ironic that the very same tag-lines used in the 70s : "investing billions in women's health" which back then funded various abortion-led birth control programs in developing countries are being used again to para-phrase "women's health" . Pfizer cannot really sell Depo Provera in Europe or the Americas because it has dangerous side-effects and people there know how to read. Its nice to be able to sell millions of doses in countries where women will not ask questions and where there is no legal requirement to explain side-effects to them. The catholic back-story looks like smoke-and-mirrors to me, i havent met any catholics (except a couple of men and women of the cloth) who expressed a theological discomfort in using birth control.
