Commemorating International Women's Day 2011: Interview With Nafis Sadik, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia/Pacific
Commemorating International Women's Day 2011: Interview With Nafis Sadik, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia/Pacific
Nafis Sadik has had an unequaled international career as a champion of women's reproductive health and rights. Sadik joi... Read more
4 Mar 2011
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15mins
Providing Opportunities for Girls Through Education and Combating FGM/C in Rural Kenya
Providing Opportunities for Girls Through Education and Combating FGM/C in Rural Kenya
Kakenya Ntaiya was born in a rural village in southern Kenya, one of eight children. When she was 5 years old, her paren... Read more
9 Feb 2011
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9mins
Social Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Disasters
Social Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Disasters
Susan Cutter is a distinguished professor of geography at the University of South Carolina where she directs the Hazards... Read more
1 Feb 2011
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10mins
Demographic Impacts and Disaster Response to the 2004 Florida Hurricanes and Hurricane Katrina
Demographic Impacts and Disaster Response to the 2004 Florida Hurricanes and Hurricane Katrina
The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in Florida's history. Four hurricanes caused $45 billion in damages and widespre... Read more
17 Jan 2011
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10mins
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Assessing the Impact of U.S. Antipoverty Programs
Assessing the Impact of U.S. Antipoverty Programs
A wide range of antipoverty programs have been in place in the United States for decades, and millions of Americans depe... Read more
22 Dec 2010
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19mins
Connecting Population Research to Poverty Reduction
Connecting Population Research to Poverty Reduction
Family planning and reproductive health is an important, and often overlooked, component of poverty reduction. To study ... Read more
18 Oct 2010
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10mins
Recent Trends in U.S. Child Care
Recent Trends in U.S. Child Care
Working parents in the United States face complex decisions on the type of care to provide for their children while they... Read more
1 Oct 2010
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10mins
U.S. Immigrant Children
U.S. Immigrant Children
There are more than 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States, and they are one of the most rapidly... Read more
1 Jul 2010
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9mins
Rescuing the 'Bottom Billion' Through Control of the Neglected Tropical Diseases
Rescuing the 'Bottom Billion' Through Control of the Neglected Tropical Diseases
With Millennium Development Goal 6, the international community pledged to "combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases... Read more
18 May 2010
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12mins
How Has the Recession Affected Older Americans?
How Has the Recession Affected Older Americans?
Most of what we hear in the media about how the recession is affecting individuals and families in the United States is ... Read more
18 Mar 2010
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15mins
