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In This Generation - Sexual & Reproductive Health Policies for a Youthful World
April 29, 2002
Across the globe, adults wring their hands over the behavior of young people, yet are often unable to communicate effectively with them about their sexual and reproductive lives. Parents, teachers and other adults widely fail to prepare young people with the information, skills and resources needed to chart a steady, healthy course through the transition to adulthood. Parents' difficulties in managing their own sexuality, combined with cultural beliefs about parenting, sexuality, and gender all constrain their ability to prepare young people. Failing to provide critical information, skills and support to young people sends them out into the world inadequately prepared for life.
What You Need to Know About the Global Gag Rule and U.S. HIV/AIDS Assistance: An Unofficial Guide
August 15, 2001
The Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, was reinstated in 2001.It is a complicated policy for which explanations are rarely brief. Consequently, it is widely misunderstood and often over-interpreted. Anecdotal evidence from the field strongly suggests that the Global Gag Rule restrictions on U.S. family planning assistance are being mistakenly applied to other U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID) accounts,especially U.S. assistance for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care.
Community-Based Population and Environment Programs - Integrating Resource Conservation and Reproductive Health
May 1, 2001
The term-CBPE for short-refers to the linkages between services that combine aspects of natural resources conservation or similar environmental work and the provision of reproductive health services, including family planning.
A World of Difference - Sexual and Reproductive Health & Risks
January 1, 2001
Assessment of the progress nations have made towards achieving the goals set by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994. The ICPD examined the social context of population growth and size by focusing on the reproductive health and rights of women and men.
Meeting the Challenge: Securing Contraceptive Supplies
January 1, 2001
The Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 establishes the right of men and women to be informed about their reproductive choices and health, and to have access to the information and services that make good health possible. The Programme of Action mandates access to a range of reproductive health care services, including health education, information and counseling on sexuality and reproductive health issues-including parenting, family planning, prenatal care, delivery, and postpartum care, abortion (where not against the law) and post-abortion care-and the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted diseases and infertility.
Why Population Growth Matters to the Future of Forests
May 1, 2000
The world's forests provide goods and services essential to human and planetary well-being. But forests are disappearing faster today than ever before. Due both to deforestation and human population growth, the current ratio of forests to human beings is less thn half what it was in 1960. Yet we not only need more forests, we need forests more than ever before–to protect the world's remaining plant and animal life, to prevent flooding, to slow human-induced climate change, and to provide the paper on which education and communication still depend. More efficient consumption of forest products and eventual stabilization of human population–a prospect that appears more promising today as birthrates decline–will be needed to conserve the world's forests in the coming millennium.
Nature's Place - Human Population and the Future of Biological Diversity
January 10, 2000
Nature's Place discusses how humans can preserve Earth and all its living species through the implementation on conservation programs. Questions raised in the report include, Does human population growth really matter to species loss? And Can policies and programs significantly influence human population trends, and can they do this while upholding the basic human right of couples and individuals to make their own decisions about reproduction, free from interference?
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.
Getting Down to Business: Expanding the Private Commercial Sector's Role in Meeting Reproductive Health Needs
May 24, 1999
Governments in developing countries have an important role to play in making reproductive health products and services affordable for the poor and other under-served groups. Accordingly, efforts to improve access to family planning and other reproductive health care have focused primarily on the public sector.
