Female Education in the Middle East Remains Great Challenge
While access to education for females has improved dramatically over the past few decades in the Middle East, many are still excluded. Education helps women prepare for the labor force and helps them understand their legal and reproductive rights.
Reproductive Health Programs Need to Involve Men: Interview With Margaret Greene
Conflicting interests and inequities between men and women pose serious obstacles to good health. Recently, however, there has been increased awareness of the need to actively involve men in reproductive health programs.
| Spotlight: Mozambique |
Mozambique Struggles to Shake Off Effects of Civil Strife
| HIV/AIDS |
HIV/AIDS in India: An Overview (PDF: 568KB)
Karnataka State (PDF: 135KB)
Nagaland State (PDF: 138KB)
Tamil Nadu State (PDF: 121KB)
Manipur State (PDF: 128KB)
Maharashtra State (PDF: 473KB)
Andhra Pradesh State (PDF: 130KB)
| United States |
Is America Settling Down?
Partisan Politics in the 2000 U.S. Census
What�s a Household, a Family?
| Maternal and Child Health |
Improving Emergency Care to End Maternal Deaths
Kangaroo Mother Care Offers Hope for Underweight Babies in Malawi
Integrating Essential Newborn Care Into Countries' Policies and Programs (PDF: 123KB)
| Women's Edition |
Applications for Women's Edition
| Fellows Program in Population Policy Communications |
PRB's 2004-2005 Fellows Program in Population Policy Communications
| Other News and Reports |
UNFPA Country Profiles for Population and Reproductive Health
Migration and HIV in Northern Senegal
Critical Links: Population, Health, and the Environment (PDF: 280KB)
Environmental Information on the Web
| QuickFacts |
What is the link between women�s education and family size? Educated women generally want smaller families and make better use of reproductive health and family planning information and services in achieving their desired family size. In Morocco, for instance, a woman with at least some secondary education had, on average, half as many children as women with no education. Read more.
What is the literacy rate among females in Mozambique?
Even though the male-female literacy gap in Mozambique narrowed somewhat between 1990 and 2000, the percentage of men 15 years and older who can read and write is more than double that for women. Female adult literacy was 28 percent in 2000, compared with 60 percent for men. Read more.
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