Unmet Need and Demand for Smaller Families in Rwanda

This PopPov network research brief summarizes findings of a paper published in 2009 by Dieudonn Muhoza Ndaruhuye and colleagues that provides insight into factors associated with Rwandans' use of family planning and the country's population dynamics.

This PopPov network research brief presents findings and policy implications from a study by Nava Ashraf, Erica Field, and Jean Lee. They investigated the husband s role in family planning decisions and presented evidence that couples behavior regarding decisions about contraceptive use produce les…

The goal of PRB's ENGAGE Presentation is to improve individuals' understanding of the health benefits of family planning for mothers and children; how family planning can contribute to child survival; and how these issues are related to national development.

PRB, in partnership with the Mozambican Instituto Nacional de Estatistics and the Mozambique Ministry of Health, developed a policy communication strategy and publications to help provincial policymakers and others address the country's health problems and create policies.

The persistent separation of racial groups across U.S. neighborhoods has lessened slightly due to mixed-race marriages. But residential patterns differ depending on the racial makeup of the couple.

In Nigeria, where 10 percent of the world's deaths to children occur, literate mothers are much less likely to see their children die before their fifth birthday than their illiterate peers. While in the United States, Los Angeles mothers' reading skills are the greatest determinant of their childre…

This PRB data sheet, created as part of PRB's IDEA project (funded by USAID), and in partnership with PAHO, provides a wealth of data for selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that document the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases, especially among the region's youth.

The four major NCDs cardiovascular disease, most cancers, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases will account for approximately 81 percent of deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by 2030 and 89 percent of all deaths in high-income countries. Adolescents and youth are a tremendous reso…

(June 2013) On June 17, USAID and the IGWG s Task Force on Gender-Based Violence, its co-chairs PRB and CARE, and the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted “Vision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriage” at the Wilson Center. Carla Koppe…

This policy brief presents the latest data on child marriage in the Arab region, which includes members of the League of Arab States (stretching from Morocco to Oman). It explains how ending child marriage would help countries achieve their Millennium Development Goals that aim to combat poverty and…

In rural Nicaragua where malnutrition is widespread, improved nutrition and health care during a boy's first 1,000 days (from the beginning of his mother's pregnancy to about age 2) has a lasting positive impact on cognitive development and learning, new research finds.

The Kenya ARHD Policy Implementation Assessment Report reveals that since 2003, Kenya's ARHD Policy has led to many perceived improvements in the health and well-being of adolescents and youth.