HIV and AIDS
Researchers with the Population Council's HIV and AIDS program seek to help arrest the spread of the HIV epidemic in developing countries and to enable people to reduce or eliminate the impact of HIV on their own health, and on the lives of people in their families, communities, and societies. Program research also addresses the connections between sexually transmitted infections and HIV.

Poverty, Gender, and Youth
Through the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program, Population Council researchers 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.

Reproductive Health
Researchers 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.

Frontiers in Reproductive Health
The Frontiers in Reproductive Health program (FRONTIERS) is a ten-year cooperative agreement with the US Agency for International Development that conducts operations research aimed at improving the delivery and quality of family planning and reproductive health services in developing countries. The program communicates research results so they can be utilized for program and policy development.

Gender, Family, and Development
The Population Council's Gender, Family, and Development program explores how age, gender, socioeconomic status, schooling, family conditions, living arrangements, civic participation, and livelihood skills and capacities shape the transition to adulthood. A special emphasis is on adolescents at risk of child marriage and/or living in the path of the HIV epidemic. A second closely related topic is negotiation with marital and sexual partners over marriage, sexual relations, and childbearing.

Horizons
The Horizons program conducts global operations research to improve HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, and care programs. Funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the US Agency for International Development, program staff and local collaborating organizations have implemented more than a hundred research activities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Microbicides
For over a decade the Population Council's Microbicides program has been working to develop a female-initiated vaginal microbicide to increase the range of options for HIV prevention, through basic science research, product development, and relevant social science research. The Council's lead candidate microbicide, Carraguard^® is currently being tested in a human efficacy trial in three sites in South Africa. The trial will be completed in March 2007.

Reproductive Health (Ebert)
The Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health pursues innovative research, technical assistance, and dissemination activities to address neglected or marginalized issues that affect the reproductive health and rights of women and men, particularly in the developing world. The Ebert program has contributed to major advances in the understanding of reproductive and sexual health, resulting in measurable improvements in health services around the world.

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