Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Twenty-five years since the landmark International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, most countries have made great strides in increasing access to and voluntary use of family planning.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
A woman’s ability to decide when to have children and how many children to have is fundamental to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights.
Income, neighborhood characteristics, and state policies may underly racial disparities in who gets needed care, despite federal efforts to expand home-care programs.
Project: Evidence to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
This web feature offers a clear understanding of the health effects of FGM/C to provide direction for future investment by donors, highlight important knowledge gaps for further research, help medical professionals identify and manage complications, and strengthen advocates’ messages.
(2018) Natural disasters focus the collective imagination on images of community devastation. Beyond the obvious external signs of disaster, such as destroyed homes and ruined infrastructure, are more intimate impacts, such as impeded access to reproductive health services.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
More than one-quarter of married women in Uganda would like to delay or prevent pregnancy but are not using family planning.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
People living near highways are negatively affected by pollution and traffic noise but also may have easier access to healthy food, health care, and recreational facilities.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
(2019) Smoking and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable death, disability, and chronic disease in the United States.
