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The Population Council conducts research worldwide to improve policies, programs, and products in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health.

HIV and AIDS

The goal of the Council's HIV and AIDS program is ambitious: to arrest the spread of the HIV epidemic in developing countries and to enable people to mitigate or eliminate the impact of HIV on their own health, and on their families, communities, and societies. (more)

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Through the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program, Population Council staff members seek to understand the social dimensions of poverty, the determinants and consequences of gender inequality, the disparities that arise during adolescence, and the critical elements of a successful transition to adulthood in developing countries. (more)

Reproductive Health

Staff affiliated with the Population Council’s Reproductive Health program focus on improving sexual and reproductive health outcomes—especially for disadvantaged populations in developing countries—through the development and introduction of appropriate technologies, assistance to policymakers in formulating evidence-based policies, and innovations in service delivery. (more)

Recently Published

Population and Development Review, March

Population and Development Review supplement: Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth (more) (contents)

Studies in Family Planning, March

Poverty, Gender, and Youth Working Papers:
"Has the HIV epidemic peaked?" (abstract) (PDF)
"Terms of marriage and time-use patterns of young wives: Evidence from rural Bangladesh" (abstract) (PDF)

Fact sheet: "From bench to bedroom: The Population Council's HIV and AIDS program" (PDFs: A4 and letter)

Briefs: Promoting Healthy, Safe, and Productive Transitions to Adulthood (more)

News

The Population Council's John Bongaarts will discuss "How long will we live?" at the National Academy of Sciences: Distinctive Voices @ The Beckman Center, in Irvine, California, on 21 May. (offsite link)

Ragui Assaad, regional director of the Council's West Asia and North Africa office, discussed "The Middle East youth bulge: Causes and consequences" in a session of the Population Reference Bureau's Discuss Online on 13 May. (offsite link)

The Population Council's 2006 Annual Report has won five awards: a Hermes Creative Award and four Society for Technical Communication awards. (more)

Results of the Phase 3 trial of the Population Council's candidate microbicide, Carraguard®, have been announced. (more)

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