(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) 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) Although family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) are critical to achieving development goals and are among the “best buys” in public health, these sectors are generally underfunded.
(2010) A lack of basic education in childhood is linked poorer health, fewer job opportunities, and decreased political participation later in life.
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(2010) Violence against women is a costly and pervasive public health problem and a violation of human rights. In Egypt, a third of women are physically abused by their husbands, according to the 2005 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).
(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.
(April 2010) Obesity rates have increased dramatically across socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups in the United States. The overall rate rose by 37 percent between 1998 and 2006—putting families’ health at risk and raising health care costs.
(2010) Youth in parts of East Africa have among the world’s highest rates of HIV infection, in part because of their limited knowledge of sexual and reproductive health.