A global database on the prevalence of risk behaviors among youth for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) highlights the need to focus on young people to tackle the growing NCD epidemic—especially in low- and middle-income countries.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
(2020) As low- and middle-income countries transition from paper to digital systems, family planning programs can benefit from unprecedented opportunities to improve services.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
International agreements have long recognized the positive role that men can play in family planning and reproductive health. These 57 data-driven slides promote increased engagement of men to sharing the responsibility for family planning and reproductive health with women.
(2002) Stigma and discrimination remain a major fact of life for the estimated 29.4 million people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and for the more than 11 million children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
(2009) One in three women will experience an act of violence in their lifetime, whether it is domestic and interpersonal violence; sexual violence; violence in the name of "culture" or tradition; or systemic violence, as in the use of rape as an instrument of war.
(1999) The 20th century has witnessed the transformation of the United States from a predominately white population rooted in Western culture to a society with a rich array of racial and ethnic minorities.