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Demography 'key' for Asia-Pacific
News, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Natalia Kanem, Published on 13/11/2023
» Asia and the Pacific is an economic powerhouse, fuelled by its vibrant and diverse population. Comprising 60% of the world's population, this region is bursting with both a wealth of experience and untapped potential. Exciting advancements have been made here, in education; health care, including sexual and reproductive health; jobs, and sustainable development. Yet there is a catch: this progress has not been evenly distributed. In fact, inequity pervades the region, especially within individual countries.
Backsliding on maternal mortality
Oped, Natalia Kanem, Published on 02/06/2023
» In 2020, an estimated 287,000 women died in pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after delivering, according to the latest data from the United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group, which includes the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). This figure is roughly equivalent to the death toll of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami or the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, two of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history.
Securing women's body autonomy
Oped, Natalia Kanem, Published on 06/07/2021
» By the age of 24, Maya Bohara had borne four children, and she and her husband decided that their family was large enough. For nine years thereafter, despite living in a poor region of Nepal, she could rely on a local health clinic for injectable contraceptives.
Asia-Pacific takes stock of development targets
News, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana & Natalia Kanem, Published on 27/11/2018
» Ministers and senior policymakers across Asia and the Pacific gather in Bangkok this week at the Midterm Review of the Asian and Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Population and Development Conference, to focus on population dynamics at a crucial time for the region.