From the website of the Population Reference Bureau:

When were you born? How many brothers and sisters did you have? Where did your ancestors live? How long will you live?

The answers to such questions are the core of demography. While many people think of demography as a kind of dry social accounting—or as a key variable for marketing campaigns—demographer Joe McFalls claims that people develop a fascination with demography when they learn how it relates to their own lives and backgrounds. “Indeed,” he says, “if people are not interested in demographic phenomena, they are not interested in themselves.”

For full article, download:

Lively Introduction (PDF, 557 KB)

UNFPA Global Population Policy Update (Newsletter)

This newsletter is issued by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in its capacity as secretariat for the biennial International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (IPCI/ICPD).

The first IPCI/ICPD was held in November 2002 in Ottawa, Canada, the second in October 2004 in Strasbourg, France and the third in November 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand. These dispatches are intended to highlight important developments taking place around the world so that parliamentarians can be kept informed of and learn from the successes, setbacks and challenges encountered by their fellow parliamentarians in other countries and regions in their efforts to promote the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (September 1994, Cairo, Egypt).

For full newsletter, visit:

http://www.unfpa.org/parliamentarians/news/newsletters.htm

[It should be noted that UNFPA does not necessarily endorse all of the policies described in this newsletter.]

Published in 2006 by Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, this 40-page “Youth Activist’s Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Rights” aims to:

• Provide an overview of the sexual and reproductive rights that are protected by
  international and regional human rights treaties and other agreements;
• Show how these rights apply to adolescents and young people; and
• Discuss ways that young people can advocate for their sexual and reproductive rights within their countries, regions, and globally.

Download A Youth Activist’s Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Rights (PDF, 863 KB).

For more information, the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights Web site contains links to all the international treaties, plans of action, and declarations that are relevant to youth sexual and reproductive rights.

These documents should be considered for development of Moral/Policy Frameworks for PMC projects.

The link in the email below will take you to the Global Health Council’s newsletter for communications professionals. There is a story there about PMC’s work in Sudan. There is a link in the story to a detailed report on the Sudan project. I have pasted the Global Health Council newsletter’s section on Sudan below the following email.

Best wishes,

Bill

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From: globalhealthcommunicators-bounces@listserve.com [mailto:globalhealthcommunicators-bounces@listserve.com] On Behalf Of Laura Barnitz
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:46 AM
To: globalhealthcommunicators@listserve.com
Subject: [GlobalHealthCommunicators] 1st Global Health CommunicatorsNewsletter is Out!

Hello Everyone,

I invite you to view our working group’s first newsletter for communications professionals working in global health. We focused on child health topics in this first issue of The Global Messenger, which you will find at http://www.globalhealth.org/communicators/. I’d like to thank contributers’ Liz Creel from the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival, Katie Elmore from Population Media Center and Marina Gavrioushkina from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. Also, we are planning to host live events for our working group. There is a forum in the works, and I’ll keep you posted once dates and speakers are confirmed.

Oh, yes. One more reminder. The 34th Annual International Conference on Global Health is coming up at the end of May. In addition to informative sessions for implementers and advocates, we have sessions that will be of particular interest to communicators—including the Communicators Workshop, the Media Luncheon, and our Film Series Premier. We will have some press room time slots for Council members who wish to hold press conferences during the week as well. I’ll send more information to you on that April 9th.

Talk to you soon,

Laura Barnitz
Director of Policy Communications
Global Health Council
1111 19th St., NW, Ste. 1120
Washington, DC 20036

202-833-5900, x3204
Fax: 202-833-0075

www.globalhealth.org

UNFPA Online Video Channel

This United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) video channel contains a collection of video features beginning in 2004. The collection is organized by topic and easily searchable by country or keywords. Topics include reproductive health, fistula, gender equality, culturally sensitive approaches, safe motherhood, among others.

http://video.unfpa.org/

I encourage you to look at Stanford Psychologist Albert Bandura’s website, which contains most of his publications.

www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/Bandura

Al Bandura’s recent publication, Going Global with Social Cognitive Theory: From Prospect to Paydirt, is quite interesting. You can find it under 2006 at http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/BanduraPubsByYear.html#2006

Show Us the Money: Is Violence Against Women on the HIV/AIDS Donor Agenda

On International Women’s Day, March 8, local and international women’s and human rights groups urged donors to devote more funding to HIV/AIDS programs aimed at reducing women’s vulnerability to infection.

At the same time a new report cited the sexual violence and coercion women experience at the hands of their male partners as a leading factor in the increasing “feminization” of the AIDS pandemic.

For full report, visit:

http://www.womenwontwait.org/images/stories/Show%20Us%20The%20Money%20Full%20Report.pdf

From the U.N. Population Division

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs announces the release of the 2006 Revision of World Populations Prospect, the official United Nations estimates and projections of the world’s population from 1950 to 2050.

The 2006 Revision is immediately available in electronic form from the website of the Population Division:
http://www.unpopulation.org

Data can be accessed and tabulated on demand through an interactive database. A number of ard copy publications including the data volumes, an analytical report and a poster will be issued in the coming months.

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Hanoi, Vietnam – The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) in co-operation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has announced that it will provide $770,000 for a three-year, social content radio serial drama project in Vietnam. The drama will be created using the Sabido methodology, a highly effective entertainment education technique that PMC has implemented in thirteen countries worldwide. The serial drama will address issues relating to reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Save the Children Norway, with funds from the Norwegian government, has announced that it will provide Population Media Center (PMC) with $2.4 million for a four-year, social content radio serial drama project in Ethiopia. The drama will be created using the Sabido methodology, a highly effective entertainment education technique that PMC has implemented in thirteen countries worldwide. The serial drama will address issues relating to reproductive health.

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