The Council addresses FGM/C as a human rights abuse and a contributor to gender inequality. Our FGM/C program advances multidisciplinary and multinational efforts needed to eliminate this harmful practice in many countries. Salma Abou Hussein, who works in the Population Council’s Egypt office, spoke with L’Orient Le Jour about female genital mutilation/cutting in Egypt.
The Population Council Vice President and Distinguished Scholar John Bongaarts makes the case that family planning is more than a vital health and human rights intervention in a published letter to the editor of The Guardian.
Julie Pulerwitz, Director of Social and Operations Research in the Council’s HIV and AIDS program, spoke with NewsDeeply’s Women & Girls Hub at the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. She discussed girls’ and women’s increased vulnerability to HIV, and how reaching this key population is critical to ending the epidemic.
The Daily Maverick examined what it will take to end the HIV epidemic among adolescent girls in South Africa, and cited Population Council research about the effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality programs.
In the Journal of Virus Eradication, Judith Bruce, a senior associate and policy analyst for the Population Council, discusses the importance of fulfilling the basic human rights of adolescent girls and protecting them during viral epidemics such as HIV and Ebola.
The Economist recently published The Unkindest Cut, a look a global efforts to curb FGM/C, which advocates for distinguishing between very harmful and less harmful types of the practice.
In USA Today, Alejandra Colom, an associate and Guatemala Country Director at the Population Council, discusses the cultural influences in Latin America and the Caribbean that limit women’s access to contraception during the Zika epidemic, and how this is affecting the region’s abortion rates.
In a letter to the editor for the New York Times, Judith Bruce, senior associate and policy analyst at the Population Council, makes the case for using evidence-based solutions that are girl-centered in order for HIV prevention efforts to be effective.
Population Council President, Julia Bunting, spoke to NewsDeeply on the importance of investing in research and development of new contraceptive technologies.
Judith Bruce, senior associate and policy analyst at the Population Council, shared what we know about young African women and factors that put them at increased risk of HIV infection with Inter Press Service (republished by AllAfrica and Relief Web).