Data Are Essential: Commentary on the Not Without FP Forum

Good evidence-based decisions require investment in people, sustainable partnerships, and effective innovations to ensure the right data get to the right people in the right formats at the right time.

This article looks at countries that experienced significant Zika virus transmission and how they rate in terms of unmet need for family planning satisfied by modern contraceptive methods.

The 2015 adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was a major milestone for United Nations (UN) Member States seeking to jumpstart efforts to improve people’s lives and maintain a healthy planet.

Shortly after he was elected in 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to provide access to a toilet at every school and home in the country by 2019, the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Ghandi's birth.

Policymakers in Kenya's Embu and Bungoma counties recently showed their support for family planning by approving firm budget commitments in the 2016 fiscal year. Their actions marked success for PRB's work with a local partner on bolstering family planning policies in the country.

Rwanda today has been hailed as one of the few countries on a fast track to reducing child and maternal mortality--thus meeting two of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in 2015.

For the first time ever, according to the World Health Organization, suicide is the #1 cause of death for adolescent girls ages 15 to 19.

News reporting in the past year by PRB's Women's Edition participants has been instrumental in exposing violence against women to authorities in Kenya and Pakistan and forging a path to justice for women who were raped.

In India, almost 62 million children (48 percent) across all income groups are stunted.

From May 29-30, PRB and its partner, Sabre Systems, in conjunction with the U.S. Census Bureau, hosted the first-ever American Community Survey (ACS) Data Users Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference was attended by 284 participants from across the United States and featured more than 40 pres…

A new program is training nurses in Indian hospitals to use a mobile device to identify women at risk of violence and promote disclosure.

Recent research by a group of health systems experts details how a 2 percent increase in current spending for maternal and child health can save 147 million children, prevent 32 million stillbirths, and avert 5 million maternal deaths by 2035.