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No access to contraception for 200 million women worldwide
Some 200 million women around the world who want contraception have no access to it, according to the United Nations.
The findings come in the Trends in Contraceptive Use Worldwide 2015 report which says that family planning is a fundamental right.
Majority of couples of child-bearing age worldwide use contraception, UN says
Nearly two-thirds of women of child-bearing age in marital or consensual unions use contraception, with the highest percentage found in Latin America and the Caribbean and the lowest in Africa, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) says.