Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Overall use of contraceptives has increased globally, but use of modern male methods (condoms and vasectomies) remains low.
The introduction of water filtration and chlorination in major U.S. cities between 1900 and 1940 accounted for about one-half of the 30 percent decline in urban death rates during those years, according to research published in the February 2005 issue of the journal Demography.
(2013) The youth population in sub-Saharan Africa is increasing rapidly. Nearly one in three people living in the region, or about 297 million, is between the ages of 10 and 24.
(2011) The United Nations Development Programme's 2011 Human Development Report examines the relationship between environmental degradation and inequality. Environmental challenges increase inequality, while inequalities in human development such as income, health, and education can further strain the environment.
(2014) Worldwide, childbearing decisions may be more of a group effort than we realized.
Malnutrition plays a role in the deaths of about 16,000 young children every day, virtually all of them in the developing world.