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Abortion Policies: A Global Review	Prepared by the Population Division of the UN; published with financial support from the United Nations Population Fund. The study is an analysis of abortion laws and policies in every country of the world, both developed and developing. It includes information on the social and political settings, the ways in which these laws and policies have been formulated, and how they have evolved.
AIDS UNGASS 2006: HIV/AIDS Charts 2005	HIV/AIDS statistics gathered in 2005 documenting in brief, by country, area and the world – with distinctions between more developed regions and east developed countries. Statistics provide total population, number of adults and children living with HIV, adult HIV prevalence, number of AIDS deaths and AIDS orphans and life expectancy at birth. The chart also tracks the prevalence in various forms of government measures: blood screening, information and education campaigns, access to antiretroviral treatment, non-discriminatory policies, promoting condom use, condom use, population living on less than US$ 1 a day and health expenditure per capita.
Alan Guttmacher Institute's New State Center: statistics on reproductive health needs and services	Research and analysis for all 50 states and the District of Columbia on abortion, law & public policy, pregnancy & birth, youth, prevention & contraception
American Spending on Reproductive Health and Population Programs Trails Other Countries’, Despite U.S. Claims	The United States has long been a leader in providing funding for contraceptives, safe motherhood programs and girls’ education, but the country does not now lead the world in spending on reproductive health programs and commodities proportionate to its GDP, as the State Department asserts. In fact, the United U.S. ranks last among the 22 major industrial countries donor countries in expenditures for foreign aid in terms of Gross National Income (GNI). When it comes to spending on population programs, the U.S. may give the most in terms of amount, but it contributes far less than its fair share, since the country’s GNI is larger than that of Japan, Germany, Britain, France and Italy combined.
Breaking the Silence: The Global Gag Rule’s Impact on Unsafe Abortion	This report by the Center for Reproductive Rights gives a voice to advocates in countries where the gag rule has impeded their efforts to slow down spiraling rates of unsafe abortion. Center researchers conducted more than 100 in-depth interviews in four countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, and Uganda—with a broad cross-section of actors including NGOs that have accepted USAID funding and are therefore "gagged" from advocating for abortion.
Countries with UNFPA Programs (updated May 2004)	Countries with UNFPA Programs
Countries with USAID Programs (updated May 2004)	Countries with USAID Programs: May 2004
Demographic Trends: From Pyramids to Pillars	A report on "From Pyramids to Pillars: The New Demographic Reality," what longer lifespans mean for demographic trends, by the former director of the U.S. Census.
Directory of Hormonal Contraceptives	This is the first electronic edition of the IPPF Directory of Hormonal Contraceptives, listing contraceptives by brand, composition, country, manufacturer and type. Hormonal contraceptives with more than 50mcg of oestrogen have been excluded since they are no longer recommended for continuous use. Follow this link for further background information.
Economic Development	2004 Latin America and the Caribbean Fact Sheet
Ensuring women’s access to safe abortion care in Europe	This flyer gives the most recent estimates of the public-health impact of unsafe abortion in Central and Eastern Europe.
Fact Sheet: G8 Nations' Spending on HIV/AIDS	May 2003: This fact sheet summarizes bilateral assistance as well as multilateral assistance through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to support prevention, care and impact mitigation programs.
Funders Concerned About AIDS	Information on recent trends in HIV/AIDS funding by U.S. philanthropic institutions, including a chart of the top 25 HIV/AIDS funders in 2000 (the most recent year for which information is fully available).
Girls' Education: Education in Africa	Education in Africa: Obstacles and Opportunities Africa is diverse-countries vary dramatically in size, economic structure, level of development, ethnic makeup, and type of educational systems. Yet the continent faces many common challenges in terms of improving basic education.
Global Warnings: Worldwide sexual and reproductive health from contraceptive supplies to maternal deaths	According to the World Health Organization, at least 20 per cent of global ill-health for women aged 15-44 is related to sexual and reproductive health. In 1994, at the landmark United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, 179 countries signed up to an action programme to establish sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015.
IDEAS, the International Data for Evaluation of Abortion Services System	This new resource from Ipas has been developed to facilitate quick access to data related to providing high-quality abortion and postabortion-care service delivery.
Population Reports: Meeting the Urban Challenge	The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP) announces publication of its latest Population Reports issue, Meeting the Urban Challenge.
Safe Motherhood Fact Sheet	Pregnancy and childbirth can be extremely dangerous. Every minute, a woman dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth somewhere in the world ¯ at least 530,000 deaths per year. For each one who dies, another 30 to 50 suffer debilitating injury, infection or disease. Maternal mortality represents the greatest disparity between rich and poor countries, with 99 percent of maternal deaths occurring in the developing world. In sub-Saharan Africa, one woman in 16 dies from pregnancy or childbirth, but only one woman in 4,000 dies in western Europe. Most of these casualties could be prevented if women had access to basic medical care during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-partum period.
The DHS STATcompiler	An innovative online database tool that allows users to select numerous countries and hundreds of health and population indicators to create customized tables that serve their specific data needs
The Johns Hopkins AIDS Service: The Hopkins HIV Report	The Hopkins HIV Report is a bimonthly newsletter for practitioners caring for patients with HIV/AIDS. All articles are written by faculty of The Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing who practice in The Johns Hopkins AIDS Service. Click here to subscribe
Three Decades of Legal Abortion: New Research and Analysis	The U.S. abortion rate continues to decline and is now at the lowest level since 1974--21.3 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 2000--according to new research from The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI). The abortion rate peaked in 1980 and 1981 at 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women. In 2000, a total of 1.31 million pregnancies ended in abortion, down from a high of 1.61 million in 1990. This information was gathered as part of AGI's 13th survey of all known abortion providers in the United States; AGI first collected data for 1973.
U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment: Consequences	U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment - findings on environmental consequences.
U.S. Population Assistance, 1965-present (in millions of dollars)	(December 2004): Figures reflect actual expenditures for population and family planning programs and are separated into funding for bilateral programs managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. voluntary contributions to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Between 1968 and 1992, however, the U.S. contribution to UNFPA was channeled through and administered by USAID and is reflected in the bilateral assistance column. Amounts in parentheses indicate the contribution made to UNFPA in each of those fiscal years.
USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse	Global Resource for Development Experience — Over 11,000 USAID reports are now available for downloading.
Useful Facts from UNFPA's The State of World Population 2002 Report	The report, People, Poverty and Possibilities: Making Development Work for the Poor, argues that addressing these population concerns is critical to meeting the UN’s Millennium Development Goals of cutting global poverty and hunger in half by 2015, reducing maternal and child mortality, curbing HIV/AIDS, advancing gender equality, and promoting environmentally sustainable development.
Women and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts (April 2004)	Prepared by the International Women’s Health Coalition, last updated April 7, 2004. For more information, contact Sue Hornik, Director of Media Relations, at 212-979-8500 or shornik@iwhc.org.
World Refugee Survey 2003: Key Statistics	World Refugee Survey 2003: Key Statistics
World Refugee Survey 2003: Principal Sources of Refugees	Principal Sources of Refugees (as of December 31, 2002)
XVI International AIDS Conference: Condoms Counts - 2006 Update	Condoms Count: 2006 Update is Population Action International’s (PAI) most recent study on funding levels and the quantities of condoms provided by bilateral donors and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. In its findings, PAI shows that overall donor support for condoms in the developing world has remained largely unchanged over the past few years, despite 2.7 million new HIV infections occurring every year. First published in 2002, Condoms Count is updated every two years. PAI discloses donor support for condoms as part of its tracking of overall donor support to reproductive health programs and policies, including HIV prevention.
XVI International AIDS Conference: SciDev.Net's dossier on HIV/AIDS	The dossier brings together topical coverage and background resources on HIV/AIDS, charts recent developments and indicates promising new avenues of research. It includes relevant news, feature and opinion articles, together with annotated links to essential reading and other resources. The 'key documents' come from a variety of sources: peer-reviewed scientific journals (including Nature and Science), international agencies, research sponsors, and campaign groups. They are either freely available on the Internet, or granted access by special permission.

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