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One of the biggest returns on investment for people and the planet is supporting the health of women and girls, especially in terms of voluntary family planning services.
News from and about GHD and recent GHD Activities
Sep 27 2012
We at GHD are celebrating this morning’s U.N.
Aug 02 2012
GHD is dedicated to breakthrough thinking– new paradigms and new interventions that are game changers in health and development. So we were excited to help launch the annual Madeleine K. Albright Global Development Lecture honoring an individual whose breakthrough thinking has changed the field of international development.
Jul 11 2012
By Aspen Global Health and Development
July 11 was World Population Day. Find out more about how the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health participated at the Melinda Gates Family Planning Summit in London and why they care about reproductive health.
Jul 11 2012
By WorldWatch Institute
This post originally appeared on WorldWatch Institute
Nine Population Strategies to Stop Short of 9 BillionWashington, D.C.—Although most analysts assume that the world’s population will rise from today’s 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, it is quite possible that humanity will never reach this population size, Worldwatch Institute President Robert Engelman argues in the book State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity.
Jul 05 2012
Over the past year, Aspen Global Health and Development has brought together communities across different development sectors to explore how the world’s growing population impacts the most important issues of the day.
Jun 29 2012
By Gwen Hopkins, Program Officer, IDEA Initiative
This post originally appeared on the AIF Blog
The pictures flash quickly: lush sea vegetation replaced by empty grey-blue seabed as carbon bubbles out of undersea vents. Reservoirs depleted too quickly, never to refill. Forests and mountains leveled for coal, deep sea oil rigs ablaze, the arctic ice cap visibly retreating. Dennis Dimick is answering the question posed to him with a litany of evidence collected by National Geographic: Does population matter?
Jun 23 2012
By Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
World leaders converged on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, marking 20 years after the first Rio 'Earth Summit'. Members of the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health participated in events and media surrounding the Conference in order to demonstrate the critical role that access to reproductive health and family planning plays in sustainable development.
Jun 20 2012
By Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
GLC member and former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jenny Shipley spoke out on CNN.com, calling family planning the 'elephant in the room' at the Rio+20 summit:
Every second, every day, every year we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people. We know that universal access to voluntary family planning services would prevent 150,000 maternal deaths and 25 million abortions every year. This is an issue all governments and negotiators should agree upon if we are serious about sustainable development.
Jun 19 2012
By Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso joins former heads of state of Norway, Ireland in condemning failure to include reproductive health services in strategy for sustainable development
