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Population Reports - Meeting the urban challenge

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:00:00 PDT

September 22, 2002 -- Every week urban areas gain another one million people. Within four years half of the world's population will live in urban areas. How governments...

Population Reports - Three to five saves lives: couples who space their births 3 to 5 years apart increase their children's chances of survival, and mothers are more likely to survive, too, according to new research. Many women want to space births longer than they currently

Sat, 22 Jun 2002 00:00:00 PDT

June 22, 2002 -- Over the years research has consistently demonstrated that, when mothers space births at least 2 years apart, their children are more likely to...

Population Reports - Performance improvement - reproductive health organizations

Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:00:00 PST

March 22, 2002 -- Performance Improvement (PI), a process pioneered in industry, is now helping to strengthen reproductive health organizations. PI focuses on...

Population Reports - Strengthening the supply chain - Family Planning Logistics

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 PST

January 1, 2002 -- When their logistics systems improve, family planning programs can make contraceptives more available, help ensure steady supply, and deliver...

Population Reports - Can we avoid catastrophe? Today's young people are the AIDS generation. They have never known a world without HIV. Millions already have died. Yet the HIV/AIDS epidemic among youth remains largely invisible to adults and to young people themselves. Stoppi

Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:00:00 PDT

September 22, 2001 -- Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24....

Population Reports - Cities at the forefront

Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:00:00 PDT

June 22, 2001 -- Cities in the developing world are at the forefront of the global struggle to achieve better living standards. How urban residents and their...

Population Reports - Helping People Decide

Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:00:00 PST

March 22, 2001 -- The best decisions about family planning are those that people make for themselves, based on accurate information and a range of contraceptive...

Population Reports - The Global Challenge

Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:00:00 PDT

September 22, 2000 -- As the century begins, natural resources are under increasing pressure, threatening public health and development. Water shortages, soil...

Population Reports - Helping Women Use the Pill

Thu, 22 Jun 2000 00:00:00 PDT

June 22, 2000 -- Around the world over 100 million women rely on oral contraceptives (OCs). They benefit from the effectiveness, safety, and convenience of the...

Population Reports - Oral Contraceptives — An Update

Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00:00 PST

March 22, 2000 -- Four decades after introduction of the pill, more women than ever are using it. Today's low-dose oral contraceptives are safer and just as...

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