Behind the Numbers: The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment

PRB in the Field: Hope is a School in Kajiado, Kenya

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health, Youth | No Comments »

by Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs, program director, Gender   Last week, I visited ground zero of hope and it wasn’t in Washington, London, or Geneva.  It was 60 kilometers outside of Nairobi, in a small ... Read more..

PRB in the Field: The Rescue Center

Friday, May 1st, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health, Youth | No Comments »

by Yordanos Goushe, senior reporter,  Ethiopia Radio TV Agency The most effective way of saving young girls from FGM, rape, and early marriage is strengthening the optional center of care that functions ... Read more..

PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 4

Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments »

by Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe, senior correspondent, The Punch, Lagos, Nigeria and member of PRB's Women's Edition The Women’s Edition training continued on Thursday with a field to a Marie Stopes centre in ... Read more..

PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 3 - What is Behind Not Using Condoms

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments »

by Ana Alpirez, editor-in-chief of el Periodico de Guatemala, and member of PRB’s Women’s Edition program.  Today I met Theresia, a teenage mother of a six-week old baby. She dropped out of school ... Read more..

PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 2

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments »

by Thato Ratsebe, PRB consultant Women’s Edition continued its second day of family planning and reproductive health training in Nairobi, Kenya by visiting the Population Council and Family Health International (FHI), ... Read more..

PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 1

Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments »

by Florence Machio, a Kenyan freelance journalist and PRB consultant There is an African proverb that says "if you want what is underneath, you have to bend." This speaks volumes when ... Read more..

PRB in the Field: Building political will for family planning in Kenya

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments »

by Marissa Yeakey, policy analyst At PRB, we’re always striving to find innovative ways to communicate data to broad audiences outside the world of public health; the ENGAGE Project is one ... Read more..