Gender-Based Violence Increases Risk of HIV/AIDS for Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011) Approximately 68 percent of people infected with HIV worldwide live in sub-Saharan Africa, where the virus disproportionately affects women.
(2011) Approximately 68 percent of people infected with HIV worldwide live in sub-Saharan Africa, where the virus disproportionately affects women.
(2011) Being a college student often means living at a subsistence-level income and suspending some big life decisions and events—like getting married and having children. But while women may delay marriage and children to pursue a degree, women with at least a bachelor's degree are actually more likely to get married than women with less education and are more likely to wait until marriage to start a family.
(2010) Unintended pregnancies are widespread in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), jeopardizing the health and well-being of women and their families.1 These unplanned pregnancies also exert an unnecessary burden on their countries' health systems and socioeconomic development.
(2008) Hardly a day has gone by over the past few months without a national poll tracking how this year's U.S. presidential race is going. However, the U.S. presidential election actually is a series of 51 contests (50 states and the District of Columbia).
(2006)In June, the body of Philip Merrill, a Maryland-based publisher and philanthropist who had donated tens of millions of dollars to his favorite causes and served on many high-profile diplomatic and intelligence assignments, was found in the Chesapeake Bay. An autopsy confirmed that Merrill, age 72, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Even before the massive earthquake in January 2010, Haiti's nearly 10 million people ranked as the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.