Some good news
Just out is
The State of World's Population 2004 (
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm). It includes both long term and current trends affecting the world's population. According to the summary, ten years after the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, "
the quality and reach of family planning programmes have improved, safe motherhood and HIV prevention efforts are being scaled up, and governments embrace the ICPD Programme of Action as an essential blueprint for realizing development goals."
Posted by belinda at May 3, 2005 04:27 PM