(2002) With its poverty and underdeveloped health systems and other infrastructures, it is certain that Africa will not be able to bring the HIV/AIDS epidemic under control as rapidly as it needs to if the continent has to rely only on its own resources.
Although progress has been made toward achieving Millennium Development Goal #1 in sub-Saharan Africa, the absolute number of people living in poverty continues to rise, due to population growth.
For 20 years, Population Reference Bureau has been connecting human health and planetary health, to show how population dynamics (including family planning) and environmental change interact and affect human and planetary health. Our new name for this practice area is People, Health, Planet.
(2010) A recent survey found that young Americans ages 18 to 29 have nearly universal acceptance of interracial dating and marriage within their own families.
(2013) Christelle Kwizera is an activist from Rwanda majoring in mechanical engineering at Oklahoma Christian University. She is also the chief creative officer of Isaro Foundation, a nonprofit she helped to found that seeks to promote the culture of reading and writing in Rwanda; and head of the U.S.
Big data has opened a new world for demographers and public health scientists to explore. But is analyzing big data practical and affordable?