Reproductive Health

The Aspen Institute awarded Gates its 2016 Public Service Award to honor the contributions in global health and education that she and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have made around the world.

The Aspen Institute awarded Gates its 2016 Public Service Award to honor the contributions in global health and education that she and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have made around the world.

Maintaining the status quo is unhealthy for women and bad for families.

China's one-child policy has led to 30 million surplus bachelors. Numerically there simply aren’t enough women for these men to mate or build families.

Tonight, one in eight of the world's people – 842 million men, women and children – will go to bed hungry.

The Honorable Joy Phumaphi, former minister of health from Botswana, delivers the closing remarks at the United Nations General Assembly

Social media and search traffic data shows that reality shows about teen motherhood trigger conversations about birth control and may have helped cause a plunge in the teen birthrate.

Each year, the Resolve Award is presented to country governments for their leadership and innovative reproductive health policy development and service delivery at a ceremony during the annual Geneva Policy Dialogue Series for Reproductive Health event held at the time of the World Health Assembly. Given by the Aspen Institute Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health (GLC), this year’s Award went to Tanzania and Peru to honor those countries’ work to meet the needs of adolescent girls. Afghanistan and Cambodia received special mentions for their efforts.

View or download this brief to learn more about why the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health selected Cambodia as a special mention for the 2014 Resolve Award.