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The Philippines is struggling to find solutions to its soaring teen pregnancy rates, and finding that addressing the problem requires interventions that go beyond contraception education and access.
As Brazil copes with an ongoing outbreak of the Zika virus, women still face barriers to accessing their preferred method of birth control.
In the next video in our series “Choice and Change,” we meet Indigenous Guatemalan Lucy Cutzan, who defied cultural norms to go on birth control. Now she helps other women, tackling myths and raising awareness about contraception.
Linking overpopulation to climate change can be a thorny issue, but on a local level some conservation charities are having great success integrating family planning advice into their environmental programming.
In the villages of Indonesia, teens often have limited access to family planning due to misconceptions about birth control and cultural taboos. Photographer Sonia Narang met women, like 19-year-old Wadianti, who became mothers much younger than they anticipated.
At around 200 deaths per 100,000 live births, Myanmar has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the region. As part of its plan to bring down those numbers, the government is giving women long-term contraception for free.
More than 225 million women want to prevent pregnancies but aren’t using contraception. Making sure they can access a choice of methods is essential. We speak to the experts who say supply chain management is key to women’s reproductive health.
After spending five years with the students of a revolutionary girls’ boarding school in Paraguay, documentary filmmaker Samantha Grant says this model for education can change lives as it protects the forest.
The Population Council is a unique research organization: Its work has resulted in the development of contraceptive technologies now used by over 170 million women worldwide. Julia Bunting, president, explains.
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