DC’s Teenage Moms Need Their Own Moms
Despite an almost continuous decline over the past twenty years, the rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States remains substantially higher than in other industrialized nations.
Despite an almost continuous decline over the past twenty years, the rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States remains substantially higher than in other industrialized nations.
(2004) Sweeping changes in public health have transformed life over the past century. On average, people live longer, healthier lives than ever before. Even so, this past century's revolution in human health and well-being is incomplete. For people living on less than US$1 per day — and according to the World Bank there are more than 1 billion of them — health services and modern medicines are still out of reach.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
In many countries, youth ages 15 to 24 have higher rates of contraceptive discontinuation than older women.
PRB supports the We Decide project in its critical step of communicating new evidence on the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and young people with disabilities and the gender-based violence (GBV) that many of them endure.
(2000) Outlawing hatred may not be possible, but members of Congress have introduced legislation regarding hate-motivated violence, in response to what some activists call a hate crime "epidemic."
Highlights From the 2024 World Population Data Sheet