August 31, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by The New York Times on May 22, 2020 Dr. Leticia Adelaide Appiah is determined to slow her conservative country’s birth rate by any means, including contraception. Not everyone is pleased. On the last Sunday before Lent, Dr. Leticia Adelaide Appiah was up early and the first to…...
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August 31, 2020 | Articles
A family planning patient in Senegal shows off her new contraceptive implant. Photo by Clément Tardif for IntraHealth International I grew up in Senegal, a country in the Sahel region in West Africa. Senegal is what we in the global health community might call “pronatalist,” meaning that people prefer large…...
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August 31, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by The Conversation on September 20, 2018 I think about the future of my continent in terms of three questions: Are Africans healthy? Do they have access to a good education? And do they have opportunities to apply their skills? Millions more Africans have been able to answer…...
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August 31, 2020 | Articles
The Supreme Court struck down an onerous and unnecessary Louisiana restriction on abortion, offering a striking rebuke to the state for passing the same version of a law the high court ruled was unconstitutional four years ago. In a 5-4 decision in June Medical Services L.L.C. vs. Russo, the court…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
I know I am “preaching to the choir,” but I just read a disturbing article in Scientific American* relating the emergence of the virus responsible for COVID-19 to habitat destruction. I felt compelled to share this with someone who might understand, and who other than your organization. What was almost…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Egypt’s Population Reaches 100 Million The population of Egypt reached 100 million in February, straining resources in a country where 8 percent of the territory contains 97 percent of the inhabitants. With the population growing by 2.5 million each year and 6 in 10 people under the age of 29,…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
This has been the darkest of springs, with endless cascades of devastating news. When so many are suffering such terrible losses, it seems right and proper to pay tribute to the characters, talents, and achievements of those who have left our midst. I found myself thinking of wonderful Population Connection…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Two days after abortion providers in Texas asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take emergency action concerning abortion access in Texas, the federal appeals court that had allowed restrictions on abortion to take effect backed down. The surprise move spares the Supreme Court—at least for the moment—from having to decide…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
All any of us are reading or talking about these days is the novel coronavirus wreaking havoc across the globe. The Democratic Primary? Harry and Meghan ditching their royal crowns and leaving England? Those stories have been replaced with articles about unemployment benefits, DIY protective masks, and how ineffectively we’ve…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Social Distancing Not Stopping Our Work With Teachers In a typical spring, PopEd staff would be crisscrossing the country, facilitating workshops with current and future teachers on campuses, in K-12 schools, and at conference centers. In mid-March, these plans, along with everyone else’s plans everywhere, came to a screeching halt.…...
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