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The Silent Partner: HIV in Marriage
November 19, 2008
Women now account for half of the 33 million people living with HIV around the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, home to two-thirds of the world's people living with HIV, women are even harder hit, making up 60 percent of those infected. Not only are women biologically more susceptible than men to HIV, many behavioral and social factors play into women's vulnerability.
Population, Fertility and Family Planning in Pakistan: A Program in Stagnation
October 6, 2008
Few outsiders are likely aware of the stagnation of Pakistan's family planning program, which provides key services and affects the country's larger demographic trajectory....Pakistan was among the vanguard countries in Asia in starting a family planning program more than five decades ago, with intermittent support from international donors including the United States. Yet fertility has declined more slowly in Pakistan than in most other Asian countries.
"New" Donors: A New Resource for Family Planning and Reproductive Health Financing?
August 15, 2008
While the past decades have seen a foreign aid field dominated by the world's wealthy countries who are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its Development Assistance Committee (DAC), a new form a donorship has emerged, or more accurately, re-emerged. Aid funding from prosperous, yet still developing countries to other developing countries has drawn international attention, much of it from a critical perspective. A 2007 article in Foreign Policy labeled aid from China, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia as both generous and toxic, while a recent cover of the Economist labeled China The New Colonialists. However, an increase in global aid to the poorest countries, delivered with fresh perspectives and an intensified spirit of South-South cooperation has many potential benefits.
Reclaiming the ABCs - The Creation and Evolution of the ABC Approach
August 4, 2008
The building blocks of the ABC (Abstinence, Be faithful and use Condoms) approach to HIV prevention have existed for many years and were implemented in independent ways in various countries. This report chronicles the history of the ABCs and advocates a comprehensive approach to HIV prevention.
Comprehensive HIV Prevention: Condoms and Contraceptives Count
July 22, 2008
More than 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, prevention remains a top priority in the continued fight against new HIV infections. Today, new HIV infections outnumber persons receiving treatment by nearly three to one. Comprehensive HIV Prevention: Condoms and Contraceptives Count provides evidence that condoms and contraceptives must be promoted as scientifically proven components of comprehensive HIV prevention
Why the United States Should Restore Funding for UNFPA
April 17, 2008
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides international leadership on population issues and is a key source of financial assistance for family planning and reproductive health programs in poor countries. Restoring U.S. funding for UNFPA programs is crucial to improving the health and lives of women and their families and to addressing demographic trends and promoting sustainable development.
The Future of U.S. Government Involvement & Funding for Family Planning & Reproductive Health Programs in the Evolving U.S. Aid Architecture
March 25, 2008
Over the last two years, the architecture of U.S. foreign assistance has undergone an unprecedented restructuring. At the same time, a congressionally-mandated commission on poverty-focused development has issued its report; a Senate staff delegation has conducted an extensive overseas fact-finding mission; and numerous nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, and presidential campaigns have issued policy prescriptions on the future of U.S. foreign aid. In all of these efforts, insufficient attention has been paid to the implications of actual and proposed changes in the U.S. foreign assistance program to the future priority and funding of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) care overseas-highly successful and cost-effective programs that have received U.S. government funding since the 1960s.
U.S. HIV/AIDS and Family Planning/Reproductive Health Assistance: A Growing Disparity Within PEPFAR Focus Countries
January 9, 2008
A Measure of Survival - Calculating Women's Sexual and Reproductive Risk
October 18, 2007
A Measure of Survival: Calculating Women's Sexual and Reproductive Risk classifies 130 developing and developed countries (comprising 96 percent of the world population) into five categories from highest to lowest sexual and reproductive risk for women based on indicators of access to reproductive health service and outcomes.
A Measure of Survival
October 15, 2007
Pregnancy and childbirth are deadly to more than half a million women worldwide every year a fact that is unacceptable, but not unavoidable. Despite twenty years of campaigning to improve their sexual and reproductive health, the risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth continues to show the largest gap between the rich and poor of all development statistics. That so little progress has been made in helping the world's poorest women survive pregnancy and childbirth should serve as a wake-up call to all of us.
