Majority of HIV/AIDS Prevention Funding to be Diverted to Abstinence Programs with New Bush Administration Directive
December 15, 2005
A new directive from the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) significantly restricts the use of HIV/AIDS prevention funding.
World AIDS Day 2005: U.S. Restrictions Snare HIV/AIDS Efforts – Population Action International Calls on U.S. to Reexamine Funding Criteria
November 30, 2005
Population Action International (PAI) today is calling on the Bush administration to evaluate whether current U.S. restrictions on international HIV/AIDS assistance allow the most effective use of U.S. funds.
Population Action International Condemns President Bush's Decision to Withhold U.S. Funding from the UN Population Fund for Fourth Consecutive Year
September 16, 2005
Population Action International (PAI) today condemned the Bush Administration's decision to deny funding to UNFPA – the United Nations Population Fund – for the fourth consecutive year.
PAI Launches New Online Index of Donor Country Spending - Update to 2004 Report
September 14, 2005
As the 2005 World Summit convenes in New York to address global development issues, PAI today has launched a new online index of donor country spending and an update to its 2004 report, Progress & Promises: Trends in International Assistance for Reproductive Health and Population.
First Country to Receive Assistance from Millennium Challenge Account is Featured in New Documentary – Finding Balance Links Population Pressures, Health Needs and the Environment
June 14, 2005
Finding Balance: Forests and Family Planning in Madagascar, an award-winning 9-minute documentary by Population Action International, explores the work of Voahary Salama-an innovative local organization that works to reduce pressure on the environment while improving the health of the country's population-and features rare interviews with local women who reveal their desire to have smaller families.
Bush's Global Gag Rule Only Making Matters Worse – New Reports, Redesigned Web Site Illustrate Effects on Women in Developing Countries
April 20, 2005
Four years since the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule by President George W. Bush on January 22, 2001, the policy continues to erode family planning and reproductive health services in developing countries, according to new case studies made available today on the Global Gag Rule Impact Project's Web site.
PAI Launches New People in the Balance Interactive Database – New Natural Resources and Population Data Available on the Web
March 20, 2005
Just in time for Earth Day, Population Action International has updated its People in the Balance: Population and Natural Resources at the Turn of the Millennium interactive database with new information.
World's Women Deserve Basic Human Rights
March 20, 2005
Population Action International (PAI) is calling on the Bush administration to reaffirm United States support of an international agreement on women's health and rights that is currently under review at the United Nations in New York.
PAI Embarks on Progress & Promises European Road Show
March 2, 2005
Population Action International is pleased to announce that President Amy Coen and Sally Ethelston, a PAI vice president and lead author of Progress & Promises: Trends in International Assistance for Reproductive Health and Population will be traveling to a number of European cities 12 – 25 March 2005 to promote the research and findings from Progress & Promises.
UN Projects Continued Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries – PAI Stresses Wider Access to Reproductive Health Care Essential to Future of 9.1 Billion, Fewer AIDS Deaths
February 24, 2005
Despite a widening debate in some industrialized countries over population aging and decline, new United Nations projections demonstrate that population continues to grow rapidly in much of the world and that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is far from cresting, Population Action International (PAI) noted on Thursday.
