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2010

Support from UNFPA for PSN backed Madagascar environment project 10 August 2010

Source: UN/PSN

A pioneering conservation and development initiative in Madagascar backed by PSN has become the first conservation project in the country to receive support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

EU surpasses US as top donor in population assistance 28 July 2010

The German Foundation for World Population (DSW) and the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF) have published their joint report Mapping European Development Aid and Population Assistance.

Cost estimates published for reproductive health 28 July 2010

There are over a dozen estimates of the financial resources needed to improve reproductive health used by the reproductive health community.

Save the Children calls for curb on population growth 28 July 2010

Source: www.savethechildren.org.uk

The world's population is growing rapidly, increasing the risk of poverty, political instability and climate change. We're calling for concerted action to slow and stabilise the world's population growth.

Population surge outstrips efforts to eradicate slums 20 July 2010

Source: Agence France-Presse, 2010

Nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped slums in the past decade, but the housing effort was outstripped by population growth and rural exodus to the cities, the United Nations said.

World Health Organization challenges Philippine bishops' advice against using condoms 20 July 2010

Source: Source: BusinessWorld (Philippines) Author: AFP with Ana Mae G. Roa

THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has defied the Catholic Church by criticizing its bishops' opposition to the use of condoms as a means of preventing the spread of HIV-AIDS.

Rwanda: Family Planning Crusade Taken to the Villages 20 July 2010

Source: The New Times via AllAfrica.com http://allafrica.com/stories/200904271553.html

Local leaders at grass-roots level in Umudugudu, are championing the family planning drive given the threats posed by the country's fast growing population.

PSN takes on the role of PPCA Secretariat 23 June 2010

PSN has recently taken on the task of co-ordinating The Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA).

World Bank releases reproductive health action plan 2010-15 15 June 2010

Source: World Bank

The World Bank has released a Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015 to help less developed countries reduce high fertility and prevent the number more than 350,000 deaths of women each year in pregnancy and childbirth complications.

 

PSN produces policy position papers on Population Dynamics and Poverty Elimination and Population and Fragile States 9 June 2010

Source: PSN, DfID

PSN has co-authored a new paper which explores the links between population dynamics and climate change.

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