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People in the Balance - Population and Natural Resources at the Turn of the Millennium
January 1, 2000
The interactive maps and data tables presented on these Web pages chronicle this growing scarcity in many of the world's countries. In each of the natural resource categories-water, land, forests, fisheries, carbon dioxide and biodiversity-a paragraph summarizes the global situation and leads to tabs that can be clicked to view an interactive map for that resource, along with one or more illustrative charts or world maps, a complete set of country data and a search engine that allows queries about specific countries and their natural resource availability or use.
Plan and Conserve - A Source Book on Linking Population and Environmental Services in Communities
April 15, 1998
In recent years, dozens of environmental and development projects in developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia have attempted to integrate or otherwise link community-based activities related both to natural resources and to reproductive health. This publication profiles 42 such projects for which Population Action International (PAI) was able to document both natural resource conservation and reproductive health activities that included improved access to family planning services.
Policy Empowers - Condom Use Among Sex Workers in the Dominican Republic
January 1, 2007
HIV prevention has long been approached at the level of individual behaviors, operating to some extent under the assumption that behavior is determined by a person's conscious decisions. However, a paradigm shift toward considering the physical and social environments in which individual HIV risk behavior takes place is gradually gaining momentum. These structural factors-whether political, economic or cultural-may directly or indirectly affect an individual's ability to avoid exposure to HIV.1 The Dominican Republic offers an example of this progression from successful individual HIV behavioral interventions among sex workers, toward broader community approaches and policy initiatives.
Poor Access to Health Services: Ways Ethiopia is Overcoming It
April 23, 2007
Weak infrastructure and limited distribution systems in low-income countries complicate access to health services, especially in rural areas. Government health outlets may be relatively few and widely dispersed, and private-sector sources often favor wealthier urban areas, resulting in uneven service availability within a country. In the absence of a solid heath infrastructure, strengthening primary health care and innovative community-based health service delivery systems help provide more equitable access to health services.
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.
Profiles in Carbon - An Update on Population, Consumption, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
January 1, 1998
Profiles in Carbon highlights the neglected linkage of population and climate, and illustrates the contribution that sound population policies could make to international efforts to slow climate change.
Progress & Promises - Trends in International Assistance for Reproductive Health and Population
May 1, 2007
Money matters and policies count. Ten years ago, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, the international community endorsed an approach to improving reproductive health based on meeting individual needs and respecting human rights. The 179 nations present agreed on a plan for achieving universal access to basic reproductive health care by 2015-and on the financial resources needed to make it a reality. They pledged to share the costs, estimated at US$18.5 billion annually by the year 2005, and donor nations committed to providing one-third of that total.
Questions and Answers on Female Genital Mutilation
There are more than 100 million women and girls alive today who are affected by FGM, the vast majority of them in Africa. Some also live in parts of the Middle East and Asia. With migration, affected women and girls now also live in the United States, Europe and, presumably, other parts of the world.
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.
