This report presents the most comprehensive compilation to date of sex-disaggregated statistics on children and young people in the developing world. It examines a selection of indicators that are currently available to measure well-being and assess children's rights.
This report is an updated version of the UNFPA's publication entitled "1995 Resource Requirements for Population and Reproductive Health Programmes: Programme Country Profiles for Population Assistance". It was published by UNFPA in collaboration with Population Reference Bureau.
This chartbook aims to provide policymakers, program managers, and the interested public in sub-Saharan Africa and around the world with a better understanding of the needs and experiences of youth in the region and how investments in youth can help achieve the MDGs.
IPPF’s comprehensive response to HIV is situated within a wider sexual and reproductive health framework. It links prevention with treatment, care and support; reduces HIV-related stigma and discrimination; and responds to the unique regional and national characteristics of the HIV epidemic.
AFXB uses the figure of 100 million by 2010 as the most reliable projection for future AIDS orphans. Other published projections are considerably smaller than this, however the data inputted into such projections excludes many children, due to difficulties in quantification.
This year, The State of theWorld's Children will focus on the millions of children for whom these pledges of a better world remain unfulfilled.
Chapter four of this publication is devoted to children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.
This report contains the most current and comprehensive statistics on children orphaned by AIDS and other causes (appendix 1). Unlike previous editions of Children on the Brink, which included data for children under age 15, this edition provides data for children under age 18.
This chartbook is focused on impacting the youth by providing information on sexual experience and reproductive health. The youth of sub-saharan Africa was targeted because of the high incidence and prevalence of HIV/AIDS infection in this region.