The Population Council is pleased to introduce a new supplement to AIDS journal, “HIV prevention for adolescent girls and their partners under the DREAMS partnership: Assessing implementation, uptake, and impact.”
The rapid spread of COVID-19 in early 2020 led to worldwide school closures, affecting over one billion students. School closures disproportionately impact girls and those living in communities that are already marginalized and affected by conflict.
COVID-19 disrupted the learning of many children globally, denying them access to social protection and other benefits associated with schooling.
In Kenya, the Ministry of Education—in collaboration with UNESCO, UNFPA, Population Council, and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Alliance—developed the National Guidelines for School Re-entry in Basic Education through a participatory process.
Climate change and climate-induced disasters pose a significant challenge to poverty reduction, health, and development in many countries. Located on the east coast of India, the state of Odisha is a climate hotspot, highly prone to climate change and multiple hazards, mainly cyclones, droughts, floods, and heatwaves.
It's impossible to know exactly what the future will bring, but modeling can help us predict or forecast possible future outcomes.
Population Council researchers develop demographic projections based on globally used and agreed upon scenarios to help us understand the complex interplay between people and the climate. How will the changes we make or fail to make over time affect our future?
Frontline health workers are often the first and only link to essential health services for millions of people worldwide, particularly during humanitarian crises.
About 26 percent of children in Kenya are stunted from malnutrition. Poor nutrition in early life irreversibly impacts brain development, affecting learning and future productivity.
As we learn more about climate change, we find increasing evidence of the divergent social impact of climate-related events. The risk of child marriage varies widely by local area among girls living in climate-vulnerable communities and depends on the nature of the climate-related events.
When COVID-19 created a “shadow pandemic” of violence against women, the Population Council worked with the government of Nigeria and partners to develop the National Gender Based Violence Dashboard, an innovative central reporting and data visualization platform for real-time tracking of different types and locations of gender-based violence in the country.
Globally, sexual and gender minority (SGM) children and adolescents suffer disproportionately from gender discrimination inflicted by entrenched social inequalities. They are at higher risk for experiencing bullying, truancy, violence, unstable housing, substance abuse, cyberbullying, and suicide.
