PAI Launches New Website!

PAI is thrilled to announce the official launch of its new and improved website!  We’ve been working hard over the past few months to create a more streamlined and easier to navigate website.  We invite you to take a few moments to click around and let us know what you think!

Visit the new PAI website: www.populationaction.org

Congressional Appropriations Bill Shows Support for Family Planning

The appropriations process is now underway with the House State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee’s approval of the fiscal year 2008 appropriations bill.  The appropriations bill contains several important family planning and reproductive health provisions, including: (1) granting the president the authority to waive the abstinence-until-marriage earmark under PEPFAR that requires at least one-third of U.S. HIV/AIDS prevention funding be limited to abstinence-until-marriage programs; and (2) an exemption of U.S. contraceptives shipments to the developing world from the restrictions of the Global Gag Rule.  We encourage our readers to urge Congress to approve these important changes to the destructive reproductive health policies of the Bush Administration. 

Read the full article
ViewPoint: Appropriations Bill Includes Life-Saving Reproductive Health Provisions

Abstaining from Reality Tours North America and Makes its Debut on YouTube!

PAI at the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Meeting

PAI staff attended the April meeting of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) meeting with both the RMA Working Group (Resource Mobilization and Awareness) as well as with the "Project RMA" team. Project RMA is a portfolio of supplies advocacy work that includes a series of country studies, small grants to select regional NGO networks or coalitions and in-country advocacy in such countries as Burkina Faso and Uganda.  This important work is crucial to building advocacy capacity on the issue of Reproductive health supplies.

Read more about the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition meeting and Project RMA

Just Released! PAI’s 2006 Annual Report!

“Let it not go without saying that everyone in my department and a handful of others, couldn’t put down your beautiful annual report.” – Peter Taback, San Francisco AIDS Foundation  

Population Action International’s Annual Report is a beautifully illustrated story of our work and achievements. The women, children, and families pictured are all people who have been touched by PAI’s work and in turn have left an unmistakable impression on all of us.

We invite you to join us as we revisit the extraordinary journey taken in 2006 and look ahead to the emerging issues PAI will be addressing in coming years.

View the Annual Report online
To receive a hard copy of the annual report contact Jennifer Ashley at jashley@popact.org or call 202-557-3432.

PAI Examines the Issue of Uneven Service Availability

Significant regional disparities in access to services and in health outcomes exist in Ethiopia, as in many other countries. PAI staff traveled to Ethiopia and saw firsthand how innovative community-based health service delivery systems help provide more equitable access to reproductive health services. They observed two programs that are working to address specific needs of localities within the context of weak health infrastructure.

Read about these two programs in: Poor Access to Health Services: Ways Ethiopia is Overcoming It

Learn About the Shape of Things to Come

PAI’s groundbreaking new report, The Shape of Things to Come: Why Age Structure Matters to a Safer, More Equitable World, shows that in today’s changing world, investments in sound population and sexual and reproductive health and rights policies can play an important role in advancing national and global development.  You’re invited to learn how a country’s “health” – its stability, governance, economic development and ability to meet the needs of its citizens – can be significantly affected by policies and programs that influence its population age structure. 

Download The Shape of Things to Come and its FactSheet
Order a copy online

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