COP28 is being hailed as the first “Health COP,” bringing attention to critical climate and health issues—but gaps remain on issues like sexual and reproductive health. The Council's Jessie Pinchoff co-authored this commentary in Ms. magazine.

New Estimates of the Economic and Social Benefits of Universal Secondary School Completion

A South African company will make vaginal rings that protect against HIV, which AIDS experts say should eventually make them cheaper and more readily available.

With use approved in 11 African countries, women can access the ring now in a growing number of implementation and pilot studies across 6 of the 11 approved countries

The US reproductive health expert on being sued for $1m, and winning a top prize for her fight for free speech in the public interest.

IPM South Africa has been awarded a 15-month grant to support the large-scale delivery of the dapivirine vaginal ring.

Climate change and ensuing environmental disasters—marked by an increasing frequency and intensity of destructive floods, droughts, storms, wildfires and extreme temperatures—are now fueling what experts say are just the first waves of places abandoned due to climate displacement. Council scientific director Jack DeWaard is interviewed in this CNN article.

Senior Scientist, Chelsea Polis is the winner of 2023 John Maddox Prize, Early Career Award.

A 2022 Population Council study on the alarming conditions faced by child domestic workers in Ethiopia is featured in this piece from the Addis Standard.

Celanese VitalDose® Drug Delivery Platform Will Enable the Population Council’s Contraceptive and HIV Multipurpose Prevention Technology

Manufacturing Master Service Agreement signed to further development of a non-antiretroviral on-demand HIV prevention product.

Council Distinguished Scholar John Bongaarts is interviewed in this Foreign Policy analysis.