Sex Workers Promote AIDS Awareness in Senegal
By asoares
(2000) Senegal’s AIDS community turns out in force when the local women’s association, called AWA, holds its board meetings.
Area of Expertise: Children, Youth, and Families
Cervical Cancer Is Major Health Problem in Latin America
(December 2000) Cancer of the uterine cervix is a major public health problem in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Early Sexual Activity Raises HIV Risk for Trinidad and Tobago Girls
(December 2000) Jean Jones (not her real name) spent most of her childhood and early teens at a home for children. At 15, she got lucky and went to live with relatives.
For China, a Census That Really Counts
(December 2000) Tracking down more than one billion Chinese citizens is no easy task, but China’s government is about to try.
How Involved Are Fathers in Raising Children?
(December 2000) Most of the research on parenting in the United States has surveyed mothers, but not fathers.
PRB Discuss Online: Why Are Stillbirths an Invisible Loss of Life in Developing Countries?
(November 2008) Each year more than 3 million stillbirths occur, and approximately 1 million of these occur after the onset of labor, but these deaths remain invisible in international and national policies, programs, and investment agendas.
La population et les changements climatiques
(Novembre 2000) En général, les négociations internationales visant à freiner les changements climatiques ont tendance à se concentrer sur les schémas de consommation dans les pays industrialisés plutôt que sur la croissance démographique mondiale.
The Baltics: Demographic Challenges and Independence
By asoares
(2000) Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania are in the midst of a transition to independence after nearly 50 years of domination by the Soviet Union.
The Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(2000) The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was one of the principal achievements of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992.
Population and Climate Change
(November 2000) International negotiations aimed at ameliorating climate change have generally focused on consumption patterns in industrialized countries rather than global population growth.