Targeting Gender-Based Violence to Reduce HIV Among Women
(September 2010) Women with an abusive sexual partner are at greater risk of HIV infection than other women.
Region: Central America
PRB Discuss Online: How Is Immigration Changing the United States?
(June 2010) Immigration is a volatile issue for Americans, who must grapple with the tradeoff between the strain of incorporating new populations and the desire for immigrants’ labor.
PRB Discuss Online: Africa’s Future, Improving the Health of Mothers and Children
(July 2009) Every year in sub-Saharan Africa, 265,000 mothers die in childbirth and 4.5 million children die before the age of 5 from preventable causes.
Birth Spacing and Childhood Undernutrition
(March 2009) A large percentage of children in developing countries suffer from undernutrition, characterized as stunting and underweight due to inadequate nutrition intake. Stunting is associated with chronic undernutrition, while underweight reflects both chronic and acute undernutrition.
Family Planning Challenges and Decentralization of Health Services in Latin America
(June 2008) In recent decades, several countries throughout Latin America have undergone health sector reform in efforts to improve the quality of care and the level of coverage.
Early Childhood Nutrition And Economic Benefits
(2008) Experts agree that nutrition has a significant impact on child health, growth, and development in the first two years of a child’s life.
The Poor-Rich Health Divide
(2004) Sweeping changes in public health have transformed life over the past century. On average, people live longer, healthier lives than ever before.
Health Sector Reform: How It Affects Reproductive Health
(June 2003) Many less developed countries are reforming their health systems in an effort to achieve public health goals more affordably and effectively.
Maternal Mortality in Guatemala: A Preventable Tragedy
(2003) From instituting new maternal health policies to addressing the quality of health services for pregnant women and their newborns, Guatemala is taking a number of steps to try to reduce deaths and disability related to pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum complications.
The Graying of Latin America
(March 2003) Latin Americans born in the 1960s era of soaring population growth will begin to pass into their 60s by 2020, signaling a surge in the retirement-age population that will last for several decades.