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By Kimberly Absher, guest youth blogger, www.howmany.org. In many parts of South Africa, condoms are free and widely available, and local clinics offer free birth control, HIV tests and treatment. Brochures and signs can be seen throughout the country encouraging safe sex. Despite these public health efforts, survey after survey indicates high numbers of unprotected sex,
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Posted in Reproductive Rights/Women's Rights |
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Tags: Family Planning, gender, sexual and reproductive rights, Women's empowerment
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China’s population growth has been popping up in the news recently. It seems the government’s concern about too much population growth has now swung in the other direction – today the issue is a shrinking labor pool. The Chinese labor force has already peaked and its population will shrink after 2030, though some experts think
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Tags: China one-child policy, economic growth, megacities, Population Growth, urbanization