The conference offered researchers and practitioners a platform to discuss new work in 272 sessions and hundreds of poster presentations.
(2013) With technology producing more and cheaper ways to determine the sex of a fetus, fewer girls are being born—an estimated 1.5 million of them every year. They are sometimes referred to as the "missing" girls, the ones who were never born because of the premium some societies place on boys.
The second in a series of three blogs on our new "Losing More Ground" report.
(2010) A new study conducted in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has revealed that perpetrators and victims of high rates of sexual gender-based violence in the region include large numbers of both men and women and are associated with increased post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, as well as physical health outcomes.
(2001) Despite laws against domestic violence, many women in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to be failed by the legal system.
Project: Combatting Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors in Youth
(2013) The four major NCDs—cardiovascular disease, most cancers, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases—will account for approximately 81 percent of deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2030, and 89 percent of all deaths in high-income countries.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
As sub-Saharan African countries strive to grow their economies, it is critical that they consider their age structures—or more particularly, the age structures of their richest and poorest populations, which are determined largely by fertility rates.
While many economic measures are looking up, key health and education indicators are backsliding, according to the 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book
