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The Faces of Unmet Need for Family Planning
(2012) The widespread adoption of family planning represents one of the most dramatic changes of the 20th century. The growing use of contraception around the world has given couples the ability to choose the number and spacing of their children, which, in turn, has prevented large numbers of unintended pregnancies, reduced the number of abortions, and reduced the incidence of deaths and illnesses related to pregnancy and childbirth.
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Ending Child Marriage in Egypt
(2016) Every year, millions of girls in developing countries marry before their 18th birthday. In Egypt, it is one in six girls.
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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Data in New Wallchart Show Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Declining in Many Countries
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends Update 2017, produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides the latest data on the practice in 29 developing countries with representative and comparable data—although FGM/C occurs worldwide.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Webinar: Leveraging High Impact Practices for Family Planning and Family Planning 2020 for Population, Health, and Environment Projects
Understanding the broad range of actors in the family planning landscape is critical to improving program advocacy and implementation.
In Rural Mali, Small Businesses Are Key to Women’s Empowerment and Economic Development
In early 2011, Pietronella van den Oever, PRB visiting scholar,visited the Malian staff and villagers she worked with in a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) rural training project in the mid-1970s. As part of PRB's 2011-2012 Policy Seminar series, she discussed her recent research on the project's results, which continue to be economically and socially important 40 years later.
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Report. Guidelines for Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Coastal Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management
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U.S. Regional Population Losses Linked to High Unemployment
(2009) High unemployment rates are not just creating a drag on the U.S. economy, but are also linked to lagging population growth in economically distressed areas, according to a PRB analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau.