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|Addis Standard

Abused and Deceived: The Distressing Reality of Domestic Workers in Ethiopia

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.
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Celanese Announces Agreement with the Population Council for Sustained Release Dual-API Therapeutic

Celanese VitalDose® Drug Delivery Platform Will Enable the Population Council’s Contraceptive and HIV Multipurpose Prevention Technology
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SwiftPharma and the Population Council Pursue Agreement to Manufacture Griffithsin Needed for the Development of a Fast-Dissolving Insert for Protection Against HIV

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

Demography Is Destiny in Africa

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

Row over British Journal of Psychiatry abortion paper saw panel quit

Senior Scientist, Chelsea Polis speaks with BBC Newsnight and the BMJ on the editorial independence of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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|The New York Times Daily podcast

How the Birth Control Pill Got Over the Counter

CBR Medical Director Lisa Haddad's testimony at the FDA Advisory Committee hearings in May is included in this podcast about over-the-counter access to the Opill.
Press Release

Girls Deliver: Building an Integrated, Feminist Ecosystem to Support Adolescent Girls at the Women Deliver 2023 Conference

Joint Press Release by the Co-Hosts of the Girls Deliver Pre-Conference on Adolescent Girls
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Population Council joins feminist partners to advance gender equality and equity at Women Deliver 2023

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The Population Council announces Interim Co-Presidents

Patricia C. Vaughan and James Sailer will serve as Interim Co-Presidents.
In the News

|The Conversation

Census data in West Africa is badly out of date: 5 reasons fresh population statistics are crucial

Council researcher Jessie Pinchoff discusses how census data can be useful for making effective policy plans and tracking progress to reach goals. The article provides five concrete ways up-to-date censuses can be useful in the context of West Africa.
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|BBC Africa Daily

Why can’t women access ‘game-changing’ HIV prevention?

This podcast from the BBC addresses why African governments have been slow to introduce the dapivirine ring.
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|The Atlantic

A Vaccine for Birth Control?

Council Distinguished Scientist Régine Sitruk-Ware is quoted in this article about efforts to develop a contraceptive vaccine.

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