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Legislative and Policy Update
June 21, 2005
Toward 7 Billion: Why World Population is Still Growing
May 2, 2005
The world's population more than doubled in the last half-century and still is increasing. Absent an unexpected dramatic shift in family size or catastrophic increases in death rates, it could add 2.5 billion people before peaking. Worldwide, the largest group of young people ever is entering their reproductive years, requiring an expansion of family planning services to enable more couples to have the smaller families and later pregnancies they desire. In the long term, this will contribute to individual and family well-being, a slowdown in population growth and sustainable economic development.
Finding Balance - Forests and Family Planning in Madagascar
April 1, 2005
Filmed in Madagascar, this 9-minute documentary explores the linkages between population growth and environmental destruction in one of the world's most biologically unique places. Finding Balance profiles Voahary Salama, a local organization working to preserve the island's rainforest by integrating health and family planning into conservation efforts. This innovative approach to conservation and development addresses the needs of women in remote rural areas while offering hope for the sustainability of critical ecosystems and the biodiversity they shelter.
40 Years of U.S. International Family Planning
January 3, 2005
Brochure with images and timeline from a reception and exhibition of photographs commemorating the 40th anniversary of U.S. funding for international family planning programs.
Access Denied - U.S. Restrictions on International Family Planning
January 3, 2005
The Global Gag Rule was reinstated by President George W. Bush on his first day in office in January 2001. Officially termed the Mexico City Policy, these restrictions mandate that no U.S. family planning assistance can be provided to foreign NGOs that use funding from any other source to: perform abortions in cases other than a threat to the woman's life, rape or incest; provide counseling and referral for abortion; or lobby to make abortion legal or more available in their country.
Are Nations Meeting Commitments to Fund Reproductive Health?
December 1, 2004
In 1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, 179 nations endorsed an approach to improving reproductive health based on meeting individual needs and respecting human rights. They pledged to share the costs needed to make basic reproductive health care available to all who need it by 2015. Today, however, most donor and developing countries still fall short of paying their “fair share.”
How Donor Countries Fall Short of Meeting Reproductive Health
December 1, 2004
At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, the international community pledged to share the costs of reproductive health care in developing countries, estimated at US$18.5 billion annually by the year 2005. Donor nations committed to provide one-third of this total, or $6.1 billion. Donors still fall far short of this pledge, once inflation is taken into account, and actual resource needs are dramatically higher today.
What is U.S. International Population Assistance?
December 1, 2004
Since 1965, Congress has appropriated money in the foreign assistance bill for population assistance to developing countries to advance the U.S. foreign policy goals of promoting sustainable development and health in these countries. This money supports family planning and related reproductive health services through programs administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Such programs directly benefit tens of millions of couples each year, improving both maternal and child health and contributing to slower population growth.
Why Population Assistance Matters
December 1, 2004
In 1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 179 nations agreed on a plan for achieving universal access to basic reproductive health care by 2015. Today, vast differences remain in reproductive health status between rich and poor countries. The HIV/AIDS pandemic exacts a growing toll in human lives and threatens economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. Donors focused on achieving the Millennium Development Goals – and concerned with poverty reduction, human rights, health and development – must help ensure the adequate flow of financial resources (referred to as population assistance) for sexual and reproductive health services.
How Reproductive Health Services and Supplies Are Key to HIV/AIDS Prevention
June 1, 2004
Sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning, are among the most important elements of the global effort to contain the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Through a well-established infrastructure, they help provide the supplies, education and information that are known to be effective in preventing the spread of infection.
