(March 2013) Global health trends have undergone a dramatic shift since 1990: Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes have replaced infectious diseases and malnutrition-related childhood illnesses as the leading causes of death and disability outside of sub-Saharan Africa.
Adolescent childbearing remains high in many countries around the world, putting millions of girls at risk for poor health and development outcomes.
While the average family in Bangladesh today has about four children fewer than their parents’ generation, that family has about six times the purchasing power.
2013) Throughout the world, women ages 35 and older are often left out of conversations on contraception.
(2013) Ghana has a young population structure: Close to half of the country’s 25 million people are below age 20, and one in five Ghanaians is an adolescent (ages 10 to 19).1
(2013) Feb. 6, 2013, marks a decade since the first International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation was commemorated.
Worldwide, nearly 43 million people were considered forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution in late 2011 (the most recent global estimate); half of these refugees, internally displaced people, and asylum seekers were women and girls.
(January 2013) Americans die sooner and are generally sicker than people in other high-income nations, says a new report from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. This U.
(2013) Economic security is out of reach for a growing number of working families in the United States, according to a new analysis of 2011 data from the U.S.
Young people bear significant burdens of poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including early marriage and childbearing, unmet need for family planning, maternal disability and death, and higher HIV prevalence.