(2010) Policies are the foundation for building high-quality, sustainable family planning programs. However, while countries aspire to enhance equity and alleviate poverty, they all too often fail to articulate clear equity-based goals for family planning policies and strategies.
(2010) More than 1.4 billion people around the world live in extreme poverty (defined as income of less than US$1.25 per day), and nearly 2 billion more live just above that level.
(2010) By 2008, Haiti’s largest microfinance organization, Fonkoze, was providing savings accounts or loans to 190,000 clients, mostly women, at its 39 banking offices in rural areas.
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Family planning is widely recognized as one of the most cost-effective health interventions.
(2010) Women of childbearing age in El Salvador are having fewer children and using more family planning, with a recent increase in the use of injectable contraceptives.
(2010) Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years.
(2010) Working parents in the United States face complex decisions on the type of care to provide for their children while they are at work, and child care costs continue to rise.
(2010) The United States has a lower life expectancy than many other wealthy countries—and the gap has been widening over the last two decades.
The Population Reference Bureau’s 2010 World Population Data Sheet focuses on a rapidly aging world, highlighting many countries’ pressures to care for their elderly citizens.
Even before the massive earthquake in January 2010, Haiti’s nearly 10 million people ranked as the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.