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Supplements to Population and Development Review
(additional supplements are available; see Population and Development Review)

Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth (2008)
vii + 326 pp., $25.00

The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950–2050 (2006)
viii + 288 pp., $21.00

Aging, Health, and Public Policy: Demographic and Economic Perspectives (2004)
vii + 265 pp., $21.00

Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological, and Demographic Perspectives (2003)
xi + 293 pp., $18.00

 

HIV and AIDS

HIV Testing, Treatment and Prevention: Generic Tools for Operational Research (2009) (PDF)

Ethical Approaches to Gathering Information from Children and Adolescents in International Settings: Guidelines and Resources (2005) (PDF)

Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Adults: A Guide for Trainers (2004) (PDF)

The PLHA-friendly Achievement Checklist (2003) (PDF)

Designing HIV/AIDS Intervention Studies: An Operations Research Handbook (2002) (PDF)

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMCT) Training Curriculum (2002) (PDF)

 

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

New Lessons: The Power of Educating Adolescent Girls (2009) (PDF)

Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Vietnam's Remote Northern Uplands (2007) (PDFs: English, Vietnamese)

Investing When It Counts: Generating the Evidence Base for Policies and Programmes for Very Young Adolescents (2006) (PDF)

 

Reproductive Health

ECP Handbook (2009) (PDF)

Assessing Integration Methodology (2008) (PDF)

Balanced Counseling Strategy (2008)

Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (2008)

Introducing Systematic Screening to Reduce Unmet Health Needs: A Manager's Manual (2008) (PDFs: English, en français, en español)

Manual for Building Capacity of Trainers and Program Managers in Emergency Contraception (2008) (PDF)

Progress of Postabortion Care in Latin America and the Caribbean: Researching, Applying, and Expanding (2007) (PDF en español)

A Client-centered Approach to Reproductive Health: A Trainer's Manual (2005) (PDF)

Sexually Transmitted and Other Reproductive Tract Infections: A Guide to Essential Practice (2005) (PDF)

Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Profile of Sexual and Reproductive Health in India (2004)

 

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What's New

Schooling and Conflict in Darfur: A Snapshot of Basic Education Services for Displaced Children. The Population Council, in collaboration with the Women’s Refugee Commission, conducted a survey of basic educational services and facilities in North and West Darfur in 2008. Read about their findings in this report, forthcoming in March. To order a copy, contact publications@popcouncil.org

BMJ has announced the nominees for its prestigious annual award for "Getting Research into Practice." The Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Practice (SHHEP) group—to which ABBA, a Population Council–led consortium, belongs—was nominated for successfully "advocating research findings to change the law in Ghana so that survivors of gender based and sexual violence are no longer forced to pay for their own medical tests to prove assault in court." Read more about this on page 6 of the linked PDF. (offsite link)

New statistics project more than five million fewer deaths from AIDS in 2030 than previously estimated. The Population Council's John Bongaarts and co-authors François Pelletier and Patrick Gerland address the cause and implications of the revised estimate in a recent article in The Lancet, "How many more AIDS deaths?" (more)

The Population Council applauds the US government’s renewed support and dedication to meeting the health and development goals laid out in the ICPD and other related UN agreements. (more)

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