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Young People’s Initiative Documentary Screening Guide
July 1, 2010
Screening PAI documentaries with young people is a good way to cultivate new voices in support of family planning and reproductive health, address young people’s reproductive health concerns through the lens of the larger international reproductive health field, and engage leaders within your community on issues you care about.
Meeting the Development and Health Needs of 215 Million Women: U.S. International Family Planning Goals
April 1, 2010
U.S. international family planning assistance is one of the great success stories in the history of U.S. development assistance. Unfortunately a large and growing need for family planning remains in many developing nations. While the world population continues to grow by 79 million people annually, 215 million women in developing countries seek to postpone childbearing, space births, or stop having children, but are not using a modern method of contraception. The United States can lead international efforts to meet the unmet need for family planning by appropriating $1 billion annually.
A Measure of the Future: Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Risk Index for the Pacific
December 7, 2009
A Measure of the Future provides a reproductive risk index and accompanying narrative that together outline the SRHR issues that Pacific Island women continue to face. A Measure of the Future was developed for Pacific policy makers and SRHR advocates to contribute to their informed action to overcome these issues, both at a national and regional level.
Why Family Planning and Reproductive Health are Critical to the Well-Being of Youth
October 23, 2009
An unprecedented number of young people are entering their reproductive years, most of whom live in the developing world. U.S. policymakers should assist in effort to ensure that youth worldwide are able to make informed decisions about their sexuality and receive the family planning and reproductive health care that they require. The U.S. should support these efforts by providing adequate funding for international family planning and reproductive health programs.
A Measure of Commitment: Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Risk Index for Sub-Saharan Africa
September 2, 2009
This report looks at the performance of Sub-Saharan African countries in meeting reproductive health targets in 47 countries and ranks them using a set of ten indicators in order of the highest to lowest risk. It highlights the need to increase the level of investment in reproductive health, step up policy reform and implementation, expand access to services in rural areas, strengthen health systems,
promote the realization of rights and abolish retrogressive cultural practices that perpetuate
gender inequities and put the lives of women and girls at risk.
Reproductive Health Supplies in Six Countries
June 3, 2009
Reproductive Health Supplies in Six Countries: Themes and Entry Points in Policies, Systems and Funding, identifies the challenges faced by reproductive health programs in Bangladesh, Ghana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Uganda. Funding constraints, combined with a weak commitment to prioritize the purchase of reproductive health supplies on the side of the recipient countries and a limited capacity for distribution, have created an unstable environment for supplies worldwide. The report, and its six associated case studies, calls for renewed attention to reproductive health supplies to avoid putting the health of millions of women at risk.
The Silent Partner: HIV in Marriage
November 19, 2008
Women now account for half of the 33 million people living with HIV around the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, home to two-thirds of the world's people living with HIV, women are even harder hit, making up 60 percent of those infected. Not only are women biologically more susceptible than men to HIV, many behavioral and social factors play into women's vulnerability.
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.
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.
A Measure of Survival
October 15, 2007
Pregnancy and childbirth are deadly to more than half a million women worldwide every year a fact that is unacceptable, but not unavoidable. Despite twenty years of campaigning to improve their sexual and reproductive health, the risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth continues to show the largest gap between the rich and poor of all development statistics. That so little progress has been made in helping the world's poorest women survive pregnancy and childbirth should serve as a wake-up call to all of us.
