Behind the Numbers: The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment
The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment
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Becoming Better Population, Health, and Environment Policy CommunicatorsFriday, July 9th, 2010 Posted in Environment, PRB News by Ashley Frost, senior policy analyst In June 2010, 16 individuals who are leading the way in Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) programs in East Africa gathered in Nairobi to participate ... Read more..PRB in the Field: A Few Ponderings on Field VisitsFriday, December 18th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment My mind is often flooded with indicators: population size, percent of the population living on less than a dollar per day, landholdings per ... Read more..Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist in Ethiopia?Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Education, Environment, Income/Poverty by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar Teaching an entire semester’s graduate course in three weeks at the end of the academic year seemed a dubious task under normal conditions. But teaching it ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Family Planning Workshops for West African JournalistsWednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health by Victoria Ebin, news media coordinator PRB is carrying out three workshops on family planning for West African journalists between January and June of this year. The first workshop, held in ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 4Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health 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 CondomsWednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health 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 2Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health 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 1Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health 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..Traditional Agro-Forestry Strategies to Address High Population Pressure and the Livelihoods of Youth in Southern EthiopiaFriday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar “Wall-to-wall houses along the dirt road, clinging to the steep mountainsides,” is what I, a demography professor at Addis Ababa University, heard from fellow participants ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Population, Health, and Environment in Rwanda, part 2Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment (Read part 1 of this post) The next morning, our group rises early for a long drive to Nyungwe National Park, in the ... Read more.. |
