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The Future of U.S. Government Involvement & Funding for Family Planning & Reproductive Health Programs in the Evolving U.S. Aid Architecture
March 25, 2008
Over the last two years, the architecture of U.S. foreign assistance has undergone an unprecedented restructuring. At the same time, a congressionally-mandated commission on poverty-focused development has issued its report; a Senate staff delegation has conducted an extensive overseas fact-finding mission; and numerous nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, and presidential campaigns have issued policy prescriptions on the future of U.S. foreign aid. In all of these efforts, insufficient attention has been paid to the implications of actual and proposed changes in the U.S. foreign assistance program to the future priority and funding of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) care overseas-highly successful and cost-effective programs that have received U.S. government funding since the 1960s.
The Importance of Population for Climate Change Challenges and Solutions
June 8, 2009
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It has been historically driven by an atmospheric build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) generated mostly by the industrialized world. The consequences of climate change-more intense hurricanes and typhoons, rising sea levels, drought, heat waves, major disruptions to agriculture-will be felt by communities around the world.
The Security Demographic - Population and Civil Conflict After the Cold War
August 1, 2003
Report detailing how the risks of civil conflict between either governments or state factions are in fact closely tied to demographic factors and the dynamics of human population.
The Shape of Things to Come - Why Age Structure Matters To A Safer, More Equitable World
April 11, 2007
The Shape of Things to Come provides valuable new insights into the programs and investments that can make countries "healthier"-more stable and peaceful, more democratic, and better able to provide for the needs of their citizens. It places all countries into one of four major age structures with attendant characteristics, benefits and risks associated with governance, security and economic development.
The Shape of Things to Come: The Effects of Age Structure on Development
April 2, 2010
Today, the world has the largest generation of young people in history, with 3.6 billion people under the age of 30 worldwide. A population’s age structure (the relative size of each age group) deeply affects development opportunities and plays a major role in security and governance challenges. In 2007, Population Action International (PAI) published The Shape of Things to Come: Why Age Structure Matters to a Safer, More Equitable World. Here, PAI updates and extends the analysis. Three case studies on Haiti, Yemen and Uganda examine the challenges specific to countries with very young age structures and recommend policy solutions.
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.
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.
U.S. HIV/AIDS and Family Planning/Reproductive Health Assistance: A Growing Disparity Within PEPFAR Focus Countries
January 9, 2008
Uncharted Waters - The Impact of U.S. Policy in Vietnam
December 1, 2006
Vietnam-a vibrant country of 84 million people-is experiencing rapid economic growth and unprecedented societal change ushered in by globalization. This is posing interesting possibilities and challenges for U.S. assistance and policy. In June 2004, the Bush Administration named Vietnam the fifteenth focus country under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Vietnam is the sole PEPFAR focus country in Asia, with twelve in Africa and two in Latin America and the Caribbean. The HIV/AIDS epidemic here differs greatly from that of its African counterparts: HIV/AIDS prevalence is quite low and is concentrated among populations which engage in high risk behaviors.
Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Current Research and Needs for Population Information
August 15, 2009
Studies of vulnerability and resilience have multiplied with the growing realization that societal
response, particularly societal capacity to adapt to climate change impacts, determines both the severity of impacts and the costs of adaptation. Although research in vulnerability and resilience began by emphasizing vulnerability, the focus has shifted at least in part to resilience as a positive concept that can be more integrated with general development goals.
