(2010) Many countries are beginning to purchase family planning commodities as a step toward ensuring more secure contraceptive supplies. In the past, most governments in countries that received donated contraceptives did not have to manage the procurement process.
(2010)Today, increasing numbers of women and men are making decisions about their family size and spacing and are using family planning to help achieve their intensions.
(2010) Family planning policymakers, program managers, and advocates have successfully carried out efforts that address and improve all aspects of reproductive health programs in developing countries.
(2010) The growing use of family planning around the world gives women and couples the ability to choose the number and spacing of their children.
(2010) Family planning policymakers, program managers, and advocates have successfully carried out efforts that address and improve all aspects of reproductive health programs in developing countries.
(2010) Family planning empowers women and can save their lives. It can also help reduce poverty, slow population growth, and ease pressures on the environment.
(2010) The phrase “1.57 Shock” was widely used in Japan 20 years ago in reaction to the lowest fertility rate in the country’s history.
(2010) A lack of basic education in childhood is linked poorer health, fewer job opportunities, and decreased political participation later in life.
(May 2010) Muslim religious leaders in Egypt—known as imams—appear to know more than the average Egyptian man about HIV/AIDS and its modes of transmission; but there are major gaps in imams’ knowledge about the disease, and their attitudes are not favorable toward people living with HIV.
(2010) The Malthus Lectureship, a partnership between the Population Reference Bureau and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), promotes the study of the connections among nutrition, food, agriculture, and population and invites an outstanding scholar or policymaker to give a presentation each year.