30. mars 2022 – 9am CEST over Zoom

The State of World Population 2022

“Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy”

Medicus Mundi Switzerland/ SEXUAL HEALTH SWITZERLAND Globally, nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended, a startling 121 million each year throughout the world. This is an unseen crisis unfolding right before our eyes. It is an unbearable cost to individuals and the world. One in two pregnancies take place in the bodies of people who did not affirmatively choose pregnancy or motherhood, who were not open to the prospect of having a child at that time, with that partner, in those circumstances. For these women, the most life-altering reproductive choice—whether to become pregnant or not–is no choice at all. This is a personal issue, a health issue, a human rights issue, a development issue and a humanitarian issue.