Noncommunicable Diseases and Youth

With Wendy Baldwin, president and CEO of PRB.

With Cate Lane, Youth Advisor at USAID.

As part of PRB's commemoration of International Youth Day and the close of the UN's International Year of Youth, this PowerPoint presentation is designed to bring attention to and present accurate data on early marriage, gender-based violence, and reproductive health of youth in sub-Saharan Africa.

When married adolescent girls can take advantage of education and employment opportunities; improve their skills and social networks to participate in public life; and access comprehensive, accurate reproductive health information and services, they can make a healthy transition into adulthood.

This PRB report looks at young people across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the challenges they face in their transition to adulthood, specifically their sexual and reproductive health—a culturally sensitive topic for societies in the region.

(March 2011) The most disadvantaged U.S. parents are also most likely to have children with more than one partner, creating complex family relationships and potentially exacerbating poverty, according to Marcia Carlson, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Video: U.S…

Marcia Carlson examines the magnitude and implications of adults having children with more than one partner, a trend called "multi-partner fertility".

As part of PRB's 2010-2011 Policy Seminar series, Suzanne Bianchi, a University of California Los Angeles sociology professor, examined new research on caregiving in later life. The study explored whether retirement and marital status made a difference in how men and women helped others. The finding…

Ending child marriage can help nations and communities meet goals related to poverty, education, gender equality, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS. This fact sheet is based on PRB's policy brief, Who Speaks For Me? Ending Child Marriage.

In the last decade, 58 million young women in developing countries—one in three—have been married before age 18, many against their will and in violation of international laws and conventions on women's rights. Even more disturbing, one in nine girls, or 15 million, has been forced into …

With the Honorable Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In a PRB Discuss Online, Dalia Al-Eryani, former program coordinator for the "Safe Age of Marriage Project," answered questions from participants about the challenges and opportunities in changing community attitudes and behaviors about child marriage in Yemen. Read a transcript of the questions and…