In this Issue

 

empty-handedIn Uganda, Condoms Hard to Come By

KAMPALA, Uganda — In her one-room house in Kampala, Faridah Nalubega calculates what it costs to take care of a child. “School fees, meals, treatment, clothing …” Then, she multiplies by six.

“I’m still young, but I have many children …” she said. Faridah thinks about the fish she will have to sell. The money she will make. She worries if it will be enough. “The way they eat, there are many and the more they grow, the more they consume … And yet I earn very little.” Read the rest.
Peru

Family Planning in Peru

In May, PAI joined Latin America experts and 10 other family planning and reproductive health advocates on a fact-finding trip to Peru. The trip was designed to expose policy advocates to family planning and reproductive health programs in the field. The delegation sought to examine and document FP/RH programs in light of the U.S. government’s plan to phase out funding for family planning and reproductive health programs in Peru and much of Latin America and the Caribbean by 2012.  Click here to read more.
capitol

Global Health Initiative Details Emerge

On June 18th the U.S. government announced the first eight Global Health Initiative focus countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Mali, Malawi, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Guatemala.  The Global Health Initiative promises to bring renewed attention to reproductive health and the 215 million women worldwide who need family planning. Click here to read more.

 
Guatemalan mom

The State of Reproductive Health in Latin America

Philanthropists and stakeholders from civil society, academia and the U.S. government joined PAI at the Colombian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on June 14th to discuss the state of reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean. This event hosted by Colombia’s Ambassador to the U.S., Carolina Barco, sought to  draw linkages between reproductive health and critical issues like  inequality, poverty and climate change, as well as focus on strategies to mobilize government support to improve the health and welfare of  women and girls. Click here to read more.

PAI in Grist, New York Times and More

PAI was featured in notable media outlets this month including Grist, the New York Times Blog, and DotEarth. Nicholas Kristof featured PAI President Suzanne Ehler’s interview in Grist, stressing the role of contraceptives in the struggle to reduce global poverty.  PAI’s Shape of Things to Come, was also featured by Andrew C. Revkin on DotEarth. The piece examined changes in population composition in Mexico and Somalia, suggesting that young adults will play a pivotal role in shaping the quality of life in developing countries. 

Read the articles here:
China policy

Adding “Forced” Bachelors to “Missing” Girls

The Gendered Outcomes of China’s Population Policy

I recently attended a 30th anniversary celebration in Beijing for the China Population and Development Research Center, which hosted an international seminar on demographic research.   Those were the same 30 years that China has restricted its citizens to having what now amounts to around 1.5 children.  While the label “one-child policy,” has always been a misnomer since there are exceptions, including for couples in some areas whose first child is a daughter, there is no mistaking that China has had a stringent fertility policy.  With a three decade perspective, we can now see what has unfolded in people’s lives as a result of the policy. Read the rest.

PAI Emphasizes Importance of Population at UNFCCC Talks

PAI staff brought family planning and reproductive health issues into the conversation at the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Bonn, Germany. The climate talks were an important opportunity for PAI to meet with delegates and advocates from all over the world, and share our work on population, gender and climate change. Click here to read more.

ARRead the 2009 Annual Report

PAI is pleased to present our 2009 Annual Report. In 2009, our work on reproductive health supplies expanded to address maternal health supplies and we remained at the forefront of addressing the connections between population, gender and climate.

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