Population and Poverty
Poverty has taken centre stage in development ever since it was raised as a priority global issue in the International Conferences in the 1990s and…
Full reviewRoad to Global Reproductive Health
This publication charts the development of international co-operation on reproductive health through the UN system and outlines the language and…
Full reviewCounting the People: Constraining Census Costs and Assessing Alternative Approaches
The papers in this report are based on an edited selection of presentations made at two meetings on population censuses. The first was the UNFPA/…
Full reviewImpact of HIV/AIDS
Globally, the are about 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS and no major region of the world escapes the pandemic?s invasive presence. However, by…
Full reviewMaternal Mortality Update 2002
Every minute a woman dies from lack of life-saving emergency obstetric care. Addressing this need is the centrepiece of UNFPA's efforts to make…
Full reviewRapid Needs Assessment Tool for Condom Programming
This document was developed in collaboration with the Population Council to design and test a rapid needs assessment and data-gathering tool to…
Full reviewTrafficking in Women, Girls and Boys
Trafficking in persons, their transportation and sale for labour of any kind, whether within or outside national boundaries, is a modern form of…
Full reviewCommunication for Development
This new publication summarizes discussions from the Eighth Roundtable on Communication for Development Roundtable (Managua, 2001) on strategies to…
Full reviewGlobal Population and Water
In the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Governments were committed to achieving the internationally agreed…
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