August 31, 2020 | Article
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 | Article
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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May 14, 2021 | Post
Alex Casey, Communications Fellow, reports on a conversation she had with Joel E. Cohen, author of How Many People Can the Earth Support? What Does Carrying Capacity Mean? [caption id="attachment_2489" align="alignleft" width="191"] Joel Cohen on March 2, 2011 | © El Programa DIA, Desarrollo de Inteligencia a través del arte[/caption]…...
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March 15, 2021 | Article
When Dr. Fauci gives us the all-clear and theaters finally reopen, what will you do if you see smoke when entering a facility? You’ll pull the alarm, of course. That’s the only humane and sensible reaction. In 1968, Paul and Anne Ehrlich did just that with The Population Bomb when…...
Read MoreSeptember 19, 2022 | Article
Fellow demography nerds, rejoice! The United Nations Population Division released its long-awaited World Population Prospects 2022 on World Population Day (July 11). These updated estimates and projections are typically published every two years, but Covid-19 caused delays in data collection that pushed publication back by a year. The new data…...
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2024 | Article
House passes devastating Appropriations Bill On June 28, the House passed the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2025 by a party line vote of 212–200. The bill cuts funding for international family planning by 24%, bans funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),…...
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December 14, 2020 | Article
Tripling the American Population to Compete With China Is Not Thinking Bigger, It’s Thinking Dumber. What a simpler world this would be if old school economics were our only concern—if we didn’t need to worry about natural resource availability or the earth’s capacity to absorb our various forms of waste.…...
Read MoreJune 10, 2024 | Article
Partisan Politics Plague Congress and Courts Congress completes 2024 funding bills: new speaker faces old challenge On the last weekend in March, with the threat of a government shutdown looming, Congress finally — a full six months late — passed the last package of Fiscal Year 2024 spending bills. Included…...
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July 8, 2020 | Post
The African continent is home to approximately 1.34 billion people, and that number is about to get much larger. Because of high fertility rates in many African countries, the continent has the highest rate of population growth in the world: 2.5% per year. Though fertility rates are high throughout the…...
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January 28, 2015 | Post
In 2011, drought struck the Horn of Africa, sparking widespread food shortages. An estimated 13 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya faced persistent hunger, which killed between 50,000 and 100,000 people—half of whom were children under five. According to UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, it was East Africa’s…...
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