PREFACE -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- MAJOR FINDINGS -- U.S. Economic Assistance Overseas -- Public Knowledge and Attitudes About Global Demographic Trends -- Specific Issues -- Congressional Actions -- IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH COMMUNICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACRONYMS --...

We provide estimates of impacts on maternal mortality of swings in US aid for family planning and maternal health driven by switches in implementation of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) with US Presidential Party. The GGR is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental...

This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...

Improved outcomes for women and children - more education, lower fertility rates, higher nutritional status, and lower incidence of illness, among other outcomes - have broad individual, family, and societal benefits. For nearly 15 years, the targets of the millennium development goals (MDGs)...