Let's Talk About Sex
November 30, 2007
Tomorrow, on World AIDS Day, let's talk about sex. 80% of new HIV infections are sexually transmitted; let's stop pretending that sex isn't happening and start making it safer.
A Remedy for PEPFAR's Flaws: Comprehensive HIV Prevention
November 13, 2007
Question: What do you do with a $100 million U.S. government program that isn't working? The answer; you fix it. Abstinence and be-faithful programs for youth in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are not meeting the needs of sexually active and at-risk youth, according to a government-commissioned evaluation that took place in March. Eight months later, no plan has been put into place to address these flaws – endangering the millions of young people these programs are supposed to help protect.
The Global Gag Rule in the Crosshairs
November 5, 2007
Women are dying from preventable causes and the U.S. is contributing to the problem. This was the grave truth repeated at last Wednesday's hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Global Gag Rule (Mexico City policy)-the first hearing of its kind in the last decade. Women are dying because the U.S. Global Gag Rule is preventing them from getting the reproductive health care and supplies they desperately need to prevent unwanted pregnancies. For the first time since President Bush took office, both houses of Congress have passed legislation to right this wrong.
Keeping Reproductive Health Supplies on an Expanding Agenda
October 30, 2007
Last week, experts from around the globe traveled to Washington to discuss an issue critical to the health of millions around the world--access to reproductive health supplies, notably contraceptives and condoms. At the invitation of USAID, the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) gathered to strategize how to build support for reproductive health supplies in a time when the development agenda of donors and country governments continues to expand.
A Measure of Survival: Where are Women at Highest Reproductive Risk?
October 22, 2007
Over half a million women worldwide die every year in pregnancy or childbirth – largely from preventable causes. In the developing world, pregnancy remains the leading killer of women in their reproductive years. And for young girls between the age of 15 and 19, their chance of dying in childbirth is twice that of their peers in their 20's. In order for countries and donors to address global priorities like poverty eradication, HIV cessation, and economic growth, strong political will to improve the sexual and reproductive health of women is paramount.
Abstaining from Reality Chosen for the 10th United Nations Association Film Festival
October 22, 2007
A short film that demonstrates, in stark and powerful detail, the grave consequences of the United States' abstinence-only approach to HIV prevention has been chosen for the 10th Annual United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF). Filmed in Kenya and Uganda, Abstaining from Reality: U.S. Restrictions on HIV Prevention features educators, an HIV-positive priest and a young Kenyan woman, Juliet Awuor, who contracted HIV/AIDS and became pregnant because she and her boyfriend did not know the proper way to use condoms. Awuor's baby subsequently contracted the disease and died. This compelling documentary provides a snapshot of the Bush administration's abstinence-only approach to global HIV/AIDS assistance.
Population Action International Chosen as a “Great Place to Work” by Washingtonian Magazine
October 22, 2007
Washingtonian Magazine awarded its biennial honor to Population Action International (PAI) as one of 60 “great places to work.” PAI was chosen from more than 225 candidates because of its “interesting work, good pay and benefits, collegial staff, employee development, and flexibility.”
A Measure of Survival: New Report Ranks 130 Nations According to Sexual and Reproductive Risks to Women Living in Those Countries
October 18, 2007
The risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth still shows the largest gap between the rich and poor of all development statistics, despite 20 years of campaigning to improve the reproductive health of women throughout the world, according to Population Action International's new report A Measure of Survival: Calculating Women's Sexual and Reproductive Risk. The lifetime risk of maternal death is over 250 times higher in poor countries than in wealthy countries. Tragically, this grave risk is largely preventable.
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.
Why Isn’t the United States Leading the World in Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health?
October 18, 2007
Pregnancy and childbirth in the United States are more deadly than ever before, even though the causes are largely preventable. Yet the U.S. barely makes it into the top 25 in the "lowest risk" category of Population Action International's new report, behind a few surprising leaders like Croatia and Cuba. Why isn't the U.S. in the top spot? This country has the highest adolescent fertility rate of all developed countries, which leads to higher death and injury rates for young mothers and their infants.
Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
Next
