New research indicates that family planning and use of maternal and child health facilities is positively associated with resilience. Resilience has a range of definitions and operates at different scales.
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PRB partnered with Faith to Action Network to create resources that urge East African Legislative Assembly members to harmonize existing reproductive health policies and support the future of the region’s youth.
(2018) Much has changed since 2010 when the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) published the breakthrough report Synchronizing Gender Strategies: A Cooperative Model for Improving Reproductive Health and Transforming Gender Relations.
PRB has developed a web feature, “Understanding the Impact of Medicalisation on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting,” that outlines the best available information on medicalization.
PRB has prepared a set of three Evidence Briefs, summarizing the program’s findings on FGM/C and its relationship to HIV, fistula, and early/child marriage.
(2018) Uganda’s Kalangala District has higher rates of HIV and teenage pregnancy than most of the country.
Data from the latest Demographic and Health Survey show that Tanzania did not achieve its commitment to increase the contraceptive prevalence rate to 60 percent by 2015.
Uganda has two national strategies that commit to increasing family planning programming. Yet, the national allocations for family planning in 2017/18 contributed less than 10 percent of the funds necessary to implement both strategies.