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Demography Is Not Destiny

Gib Clarke, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on March 4, 2008 - 9:02am
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Demographic trends can interact with other factors such as poverty, poor governance, competition for natural resources, and environmental degradation to exacerbate tensions and contribute to conflict. But demography is not destiny, and family planning and reproductive health can play an important role in preventing and reducing instability.


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Uncovering the Nativism of Population Politics

Priscilla Huang, NAPAWF on February 21, 2008 - 9:47am
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Anti-immigrant zealots insist that their motives are not racist. But given that they have worked to end birthright citizenship and criticize the higher birth rates of Asian and Latina immigrant women, their claims ring false.


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Complex Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS

Elizabeth Leahy, Population Action International (PAI) on January 11, 2008 - 10:05am
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Despite the major effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on mortality and life expectancy, populations are continuing to grow even in the hardest-hit countries. With so much uncertainty about the number of people living with HIV/AIDS, the demographic impact is still incompletely understood.


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A Growing Population and HIV/AIDS

Cecile Enie on January 2, 2008 - 10:14am
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What effect has the AIDS pandemic had on population, life expectancy and fertility rates worldwide?


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Reproductive Health Makes Comeback

Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia on November 5, 2007 - 8:00am
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The sponsor of the Philippines' reproductive health bill has recently accepted reproductive health as a human right, not as a population control measure.


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