WHO Fact Sheet: Family Planning and Contraceptive Methods

This Lancet Commission report examines power disparities and dynamics across a range of policy areas that affect health and that require improved global governance: economic crises and austerity measures, knowledge and intellectual property, foreign investment treaties, food security, transnational corporate activity, irregular migration, and violent conflict. Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. The Lancet—University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance…

This Lancet report is the first all-female-led Commission examining the global burden of cardiovascular disease in women, a deeply understudied, under-recognized, and under-diagnosed condition. Bringing together experts from 11 different countries, the report underscores the ambitious efforts needed to address gaps in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Among the many findings, the report indicates hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes are the key risk factors contributing to cardiovascular death the women, and socioeconomic deprivation significantly exacerbates the global…

This report from the World Bank Group, the Africa Development Forum, and Agence Française de Développement examines the policy actions needed at each stage of the demographic transition, highlighting successful global and regional examples to provide evidence of what strategies are most effective. It notes that countries have numerous options to speed up the transition, improve investment in youth, expand labor markets, and encourage savings, and emphasizes that empowering women and girls—through health improvements, education,…