Adding it up: the benefits of investing in sexual and reproductive health care

The report, jointly published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA, reviews and evaluates current approaches to measuring the costs and benefits of investment in health services. It strongly makes the case that reproductive and sexual health programmes are dramatically underfunded, and that investments in this sector have a tremendous impact, both on the health and well-being of individuals and families, and on the economic health and development prospects of nations. It concludes that increased investment in reproductive and sexual health services is needed in order to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals and other development objectives.