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"HIV and children," the current issue of the Council's news publication, Momentum, highlights our work on behalf of the millions of children worldwide who have been affected by HIV and AIDS. (more)

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Annual Report 2008

Population and Development Review, June

Population and Development Review supplement: Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth (more) (contents)

Studies in Family Planning, June

"Urban poverty and health in developing countries," by Population Council researcher Mark Montgomery, has recently been published in the PRB Population Bulletin (offsite PDF).

FRONTIERS Legacy Topics: Results and lessons learned from ten years of operations research have been synthesized and grouped into eight major legacy themes (more)

Briefs: Promoting Healthy, Safe, and Productive Transitions to Adulthood (more)

The Population Council’s plans to scale up its Ishraq program were featured at an event in Cairo on Wednesday, 1 July. (more)

A Council-led study in China shows that low-birth-weight infants (who suffer higher rates of death, disability, and impaired development than larger babies) have higher blood levels of phthalates than heavier newborns. (more)

Council associate Nafissatou Diop has been appointed to the World Health Organization's Gender and Rights Advisory Panel for the period 2010–2012.

Saiqa Mullick, senior associate in the Council's South Africa office, has been appointed to the World Health Organization's Expert Advisory Panel on Sexually Transmitted Infections including those due to Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

The Council is a collaborator in the Male Circumcision Partnership, which is launching a massive scale-up of voluntary male circumcision services in Swaziland and Zambia. (more)

On 5 June 2009, representatives from the Population Council and colleague organizations met with Congressional staff in Washington, DC, about the importance of research on family planning and reproductive health. (more) Population Reference Bureau has posted a Webcast of the event (offsite link)

Samuel H. Preston has been named winner of the 2009 Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Award for excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences. (PDF)