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Asia-Pacific High-Level Forum Declaration on Population and Development: Fifteen Years After Cairo

Fifteen years ago, the world came together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, and agreed by consensus on a 20-year Programme of Action t...

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ICPD at 15: Priority Challenges for Asia and the Pacific

Based on the inputs from a regional review organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in March 2009, this report reviews the progress achieved...

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Asia and the Pacific at a Glance

The Asia and the Pacific region is home to nearly 3.7 billion people, which amounts to about 60 percent of the world's total population. While the region has made signifi...

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Papers in Population Ageing No.6

During the 1950s and 1960s, most less developed countries were characterized by high fertility levels. Recognizing this, governments undertook sustained measures to promote family ...

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Conference on Advocating Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services and Commodity Security

About 188,000 women in South Asia die each year due to pregnancy-related complications, accounting for more than 50 percent of Asia’s maternal deaths in 2005. All of these de...

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Enhancing HIV Education for Adolescents Through Effective Health and Sexuality Education

The International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) is a biennial congress which brings together people from various backgrounds in the Asia-Pacific region to meet a...

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Beijing Call to Action

The 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR) gathered nearly 1,000 participants from around the world to look at the progress and the ongo...

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Youth Declaration at the 5th APCRSHR

There are approximately 450 million young people in the Asia-Pacific region, with only few of them able to receive reproductive health services. This leaves them potentially vulner...

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Reproductive Health of Ethnic Minority Groups in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

The Greater Mekong Sub-Region is one of the fastest growing economic sub-regions in the world and is expected to emerge as an important economic hub in Asia. But many of Mekong'...