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

World Contraception Day

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 Posted in Reproductive Health

by Kate Gilles and Marissa Pine Yeakey, policy analysts World Contraception Day “centers around a vision for a world where every pregnancy is wanted,” with a goal of enabling “young people ... Read more..

Hindsight on Population’s Future Impact

Thursday, May 10th, 2012 Posted in Reproductive Health

by Paola Scommegna, senior writer/editor It’s been 40 years since the 1972 U.S. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future submitted its final report to Congress and President Nixon. Chaired ... Read more..

The Power of Youth in Kibera

Monday, March 19th, 2012 Posted in Gender, Reproductive Health, Youth

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Photo: Mia Foreman/PRB."][/caption] by Mia Foreman, policy analyst, International Programs Kibera, located 5 km from the city center of Nairobi, has been called Africa’s second-largest ... Read more..

Learning From Navrongo

Thursday, January 19th, 2012 Posted in Health, Reproductive Health

by Eric Zuehlke, web communications manager Navrongo, a rural district in northern Ghana that faced high infant and under-5 mortality and where women averaged over 5 children each 20 years ago, ... Read more..

The Whole Truth: Thinking About the Risk of Contracting HIV When Using Injectable Contraception

Friday, December 2nd, 2011 Posted in HIV/AIDS

by Jay Gribble, vice president, International Programs As part of World AIDS Day, ICFP 2011 included a special session on the recently published The Lancet article that found an increase—a two-fold increase—in ... Read more..

Couples, Communication, and Contraception

Thursday, October 27th, 2011 Posted in Gender, Reproductive Health

by Kate Gilles, policy analyst In an essay in the Sunday, Oct. 23 New York Times, Helen Epstein asks, “Could a ‘contraceptive talking cure’ work in Africa in our own century?”  ... Read more..

Burkina Faso’s 2010 Demographic and Health Survey/MICS Shows Slow Fertility Decline; Remarkable Progress on Health

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Health, Population Basics, Reproductive Health

by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar The Burkina Faso 2010 DHS interviewed 17,087 women ages 15 to 49 and 7,307 men ages 15-to 59 from May 2010 to January 2011. ... Read more..

To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Aggregates and Averages

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Posted in Reproductive Health

by Jay Gribble, vice president, International Programs  I was recently looking at use of family planning methods in Pakistan. According to the recent Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006-07, almost 30 ... Read more..