(2009) An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone.
(2009) Cross-generational sex—or Sugar Daddy syndrome—is a pattern of sexual behavior between young women and much older men that brings increased health risks and consequences for young women.
(2009) Each year, an estimated 9 million infants are born with a serious birth defect that may kill them or result in a lifelong disability. Such birth defects have an especially severe effect on children in developing countries.
(2008) La fracture démographique — ou inégalité entre les profiles de population et de santé entre pays riches et pays pauvres — se creuse.
(Octobre 2008) La malnutrition chronique constitue depuis longtemps un problème persistant qui affecte les jeunes enfants de l’Afrique subsaharienne.
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(2008) Countries throughout Africa are engaged in an important initiative to reposition family planning as a priority on their national and local agendas.
(2008) Sub-Saharan Africa remains the “last frontier” of fertility decline. Throughout the developing world (including China), the average number of children per woman has dropped from around six in 1965 to just about three today.
(2008) On Nov. 14, five of the 12 participants in PRB’s Women’s Edition seminar sat down to discuss reproductive health issues, the impact of the Women’s Edition seminar, and the challenges and opportunities of being a woman journalist.
(December 2008) New data from the U.S.