family planning

“Why were you destroying government property in Afghanistan?”

Malcolm Potts, professor of population and family planning | October 20, 2013

I first went to Afghanistan in December 1969. I still remember the bitter cold. USAID had begun to invest in family planning and an American gynecologist had been assigned to the US embassy in Kabul to start a program. He was who had invented a new experimental  intrauterine device. It looked to me rather like a … Continue reading »

Vasectomy on Platform 9

Malcolm Potts, professor of population and family planning | September 9, 2013

For several years, the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability at UC Berkeley has taught a popular undergraduate course called Poverty and Population. The faculty, Prof. Ndola Prata, Dr. Martha Campbell and I, work in developing countries to make family planning readily available. The GSIs also often end up overseas as summer interns working … Continue reading »