Most Recent Articles from Population Reports

• Meeting the urban challenge 

  Every week urban areas gain another one million people. Within four years half of the world's population will live in urban areas. How governments...

  09/22/02 · More from publication

• Three to five saves lives: couples who space their births 3 to 5 years apart increase their children's chances of survival, and mothers are more likely to survive, too, according to new research. Many women want to space births longer than they currently 

  Over the years research has consistently demonstrated that, when mothers space births at least 2 years apart, their children are more likely to...

  06/22/02 · More from publication

• Performance improvement - reproductive health organizations 

  Performance Improvement (PI), a process pioneered in industry, is now helping to strengthen reproductive health organizations. PI focuses on...

  03/22/02 · More from publication

• Strengthening the supply chain - Family Planning Logistics 

  When their logistics systems improve, family planning programs can make contraceptives more available, help ensure steady supply, and deliver...

  01/01/02 · More from publication

• Can we avoid catastrophe? Today's young people are the AIDS generation. They have never known a world without HIV. Millions already have died. Yet the HIV/AIDS epidemic among youth remains largely invisible to adults and to young people themselves. Stoppi 

  Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24....

  09/22/01 · More from publication

• Cities at the forefront 

  Cities in the developing world are at the forefront of the global struggle to achieve better living standards. How urban residents and their...

  06/22/01 by Don Hinrichsen · More from publication

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