Sub-Saharan Africa

Injectable Contraceptives Put Women at Risk of HIV Infection

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12, 2016 CONTACT: Jonathan Abbamonte, (540) 660-2733, jonathan@www.pop.org FRONT ROYAL, VA — A stunning new video from the Population Research Institute (PRI) shows that women using injectable contraceptives like Depo-Provera may have a greater risk of contracting HIV. Several studies have

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USAID Needs to Warn Women of the Dangers of Depo-Provera

  Despite mounting evidence of serious side effects associated with the use of injectable contraceptives, international aid programs continue to indiscriminately distribute Depo-Provera under various brand names worldwide. Indeed, a coalition of family planning partners including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the

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New PRI Study Shows Depo-Provera Increases Risk of HIV Infection

A new peer-reviewed study,1 conducted in collaboration with the Population Research Institute (PRI), shows that women who use Depo-Provera are significantly more likely to acquire HIV. Due to funding from organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and agencies like the United Nations Population

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Out of Africa Comes a Cry for Help Against the Culture of Death

Arriving in the Philippines last January, Pope Francis warned his millions of listeners to resist “ideological colonization.” This destructive assault on families, the Pope continued, included efforts to “redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack

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HIV/AIDS: Western Failure and Ugandan Success

That Sub-Saharan Africa lies in the grip of a vast AIDS epidemic is no secret to anyone. According to statistics published in 2006 by UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), an estimated 24.5 million people in the region were HIV-positive by the end

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The Obstetric Fistula Fallacy

  24 October 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 39 Dear Colleague, Feminists and abortion-rights activists have staked a claim to obstetric fistula. As usual, their motives are ideological, and do not translate into programs that help women on the ground. Steven W. Mosher THE OBSTETRIC

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HIV/AIDS: Western Failure and Ugandan Success

17 September 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 34 Dear Colleague, Bishop Hugh Slattery of the South African Diocese of Tzaneen recently commissioned two beautifully done documentaries which he shared with PRI. Together, they tell how the Catholic Church in Uganda and South Africa are successfully

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For the Record…

“Human Events writer and Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute Joseph A. D’Agostino calls the UNFPA blitz in Mongolia, which has a dramatically falling birthrate, now at only 2.3 children per woman, as a ‘kinder, gentler genocide,’ comparing it to the one-child

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World Population Aging 2006

July 20, 2006 Volume 8, Number 28 World Population Aging 2006 Dear Colleague: World Population Day 2006 witnessed calls for more of the same globally destructive programs. Steven W. Mosher President Few of you likely noticed, but July 11 was World Population Day 2006. On

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The Obstetric Fistula Fallacy

  24 October 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 39 Dear Colleague, Feminists and abortion-rights activists have staked a claim to obstetric fistula. As usual, their

Read More »

For the Record…

“Human Events writer and Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute Joseph A. D’Agostino calls the UNFPA blitz in Mongolia, which has a

Read More »

World Population Aging 2006

July 20, 2006 Volume 8, Number 28 World Population Aging 2006 Dear Colleague: World Population Day 2006 witnessed calls for more of the same globally

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