About the Population Council
Population Council key facts and FAQs (full text) (PDF) (PDF en español)
Why your support matters (2009) (PDF)
Population and the food supply (2008) (PDF)
The Population Council in Latin America and the Caribbean (2008) (PDF) (PDF en español)
Population Council in Ethiopia (2008) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Population Council in Mexico (2008) (PDF)
Population Council in South Africa (2008) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (2008) (PDF)
HIV and AIDS Program
From bench to bedroom: The Population Council's HIV and AIDS program (2009) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Microbicides
- Questions and answers about the Population Council’s microbicides program and Phase 3 Carraguard trial (2008) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Trial statistics for the Phase 3 efficacy and long-term safety trial of the candidate microbicide Carraguard (2008) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- The Population Council, HIV and AIDS, and microbicides (2008) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Population Council microbicide program: A chronology (2008) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Ethics in clinical trials: Population Council's microbicides program (2008) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Insights for microbicides introduction (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Prevention
- MSM consultation stimulates action to address "the overlooked epidemic" (2008) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Horizons launches innovative intervention study to promote mutual monogamy in South Africa (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Community-based activities complement PMTCT programs in Kenya (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- From mother to mother: A peer mentor program to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa offers much needed support (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- A targeted intervention falls short: Study in South African mining community highlights importance of understanding sexual networks (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Treatment and Care
Youth
- Horizons develops and pilots an abstinence (A) and being faithful (B) life skills curriculum for in-school youth in South Africa (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Examining the rollout of pediatric antiretroviral treatment (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Where are the children? Strengthening pediatric access to ART in South Africa (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Ethical implications of working with children (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
- Population Council works to eliminate child marriage (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program
Poverty, Gender, and Youth program: From demography to policy (2009) (PDF)
Child marriage briefing sheets: Ethiopia (PDF), Mali (PDF), Mozambique (PDF), Nigeria (PDF), Zambia (PDF)
Child marriage in francophone West Africa (2008) (PDF)
The Adolescent Experience In-depth: Using Data to Identify and Reach the Most Vulnerable Young People (more)
Facts About Adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey: Statistical Tables for Program Planning (more)
Promoting Healthy, Safe, and Productive Transitions to Adulthood (more)
Reproductive Health Program
Reproductive Health program: From product development to service delivery (2009) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Focused antenatal care acceptable, tricky to implement (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
The struggle to end FGM/C (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Mixed success involving men in maternal care worldwide (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Low morale found among South African nurses (2007) (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Contraception
Emergency contraception
- Emergency contraception: Addressing unwanted pregnancies and maternal mortality in Senegal (2009) (PDF)
- Health facts about emergency contraceptive pills (2008) (PDF)
- Population Council research and technical assistance on emergency contraception (2008) (PDF)
- Facts about emergency contraception (2006) (PDF en español) (PDF en français pour l'Afrique) (PDF en français pour le Canada)
Nonconsensual sex
Reproductive tract infections (PDF)
Impact
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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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