(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) Family planning and reproductive health is an important, and often overlooked, component of poverty reduction.
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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.
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.
(2010) A new study conducted in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has revealed that perpetrators and victims of high rates of sexual gender-based violence in the region include large numbers of both men and women and are associated with increased post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, as well as physical health outcomes.
(2010) According to Karen Hardee, the gap between those working on climate change issues and those in international development needs to be bridged. The two communities have different priorities and “don’t speak the same language.