Lessons on Family Planning Equity Among Youth
Advocates, service providers, and governments are increasingly focused on improving access to and use of contraception among young people.
Advocates, service providers, and governments are increasingly focused on improving access to and use of contraception among young people.
(2002) The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a crisis of enormous proportions that is rapidly wiping out many of the gains sub-Saharan Africa has achieved since the countries attained independence.
While many economic measures are looking up, key health and education indicators are backsliding, according to the 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book
(2009) Each year, an estimated 9 million infants are born with a serious birth defect that may kill them or result in a lifelong disability. Such birth defects have an especially severe effect on children in developing countries.
In 2020, for the first time in decades, more children ages 17 and younger died from guns than from motor vehicle crashes.
Project: International Media Program
(2008) On Nov. 14, five of the 12 participants in PRB's Women's Edition seminar sat down to discuss reproductive health issues, the impact of the Women's Edition seminar, and the challenges and opportunities of being a woman journalist.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Some studies suggest that retirement may reduce health-threatening stress and give older people more time to prioritize exercise and healthy eating.
Water and sanitation play a crucial role in the transmission of diarrheal disease. These environmental factors contribute to approximately 94 percent of the 4 billion cases of diarrhea that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates to occur globally each year.