The Dapivirine-Levonorgestrel Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention and Contraception
The Issue Despite global efforts to reduce the number of new HIV infections to 500,000 by 2020, an estimated 1.3 million people became [...]
Calling Attention to Experiences of Care for Hospitalized Newborns and Young Children to Improve Newborn and Child Survival
Over the last decade, progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reduce maternal deaths, stillbirths, and newborn deaths has stagnated. Recent [...]
The Roots of Gender Inequality Grow Deeper Than Technology Can Reach
Every two minutes, a woman dies from a maternity-related cause. That number is down significantly from two decades ago, but it’s still three [...]
Revive IPTp-SP: Revitalization of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy
Nearly a third of Kenya’s 51 million people live in malaria-endemic zones with millions more exposed to the seasonal transmission of the disease. [...]
Ricardo Regules
Ricardo Regules García is a researcher at the Population Council Office in Mexico City. In 2019, Regules García joined the Council’s Population, Environmental Risks, and Climate [...]
United States
In the US, the Population Council has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. The Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research (CBR)—located on [...]
Mexico
Since 1979, the Population Council has worked in Mexico to improve reproductive health through high-quality research, program evaluation, and technical partnerships with national and state [...]
Reaffirming Our Resolve to Uphold Global Reproductive Rights: SheDecides Turns Five
This week, I join youth activists, leaders of civil society, ministers and parliamentarians, and others committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and [...]
In Memoriam: Former Population Council President George Zeidenstein
The Population Council mourns the passing of George Zeidenstein, the Council’s fifth President, who died on August 21, 2021 aged 92 in Goshen, [...]
Population Council Applauds Repeal of Mexico City Policy
The Population Council applauds the recent executive action of the United States (U.S.) Government to rescind the Mexico City Policy, to resume funding to the United Nations Population Foundation [...]
The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus: A Toolkit for Family Planning Service Providers Working in High HIV/STI Prevalence Settings
The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (BCS+) toolkit, developed and tested in Kenya and South Africa, provides the information and materials that healthcare providers [...]