Expanding access to family planning has been a key aim of health and development programming for almost 50 years. During that time, important gains have been made in addressing unmet need for family planning, increasing contraceptive prevalence, and preventing unintended pregnancies. Over the past two decades, however, the pace of these gains has slowed, especially in several countries in sub-S...

Society is seen as a continuation of relationships which have been altered by the use of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs). Four interrelated characteristics of the global Information Society also are identified. After a brief overview of the main socioethical issues facing the global Information Society, the article discusses the application of social justice as a moral ...

Ending poverty in all its forms by 2030 remains the first agenda of Sustainable Development Goals set United Nations 2015. Motivated this agenda, study examined direct and indirect effect financial technology (fintech) sub-measures third-party payment credit on measured household per capita consumption. We used a panel 31 provinces China from 2011 to 2017. The results indicated that fintech the...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015-2030 is the first of three United Nations (UN) landmark agreements this year (the other two being the Sustainable Development Goals due in September 2015 and the climate change agreements due in December 2015). It represents a step in the direction of global policy coherence with explicit reference to health, economic development, and ...

678 www.thelancet.com Vol 383 February 22, 2014 On Sept 25, 2013, the UN General Assembly held a special session devoted to progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 develop ment agenda. Building on more than a year of consultation, advocacy, and lobbying, the debate provides an opportunity to take stock of health-related proposals. Described as a generational opport...

Along with remarkable advancement of radiocommunication services including satellite services, the radio-frequency spectrum and geostationary-satellite orbit are getting congested. WRC-15 was held in November 2015 to study and implement efficient use of those natural resources. There were a number of satellite-related agenda items associated with frequency allocation, new usages of satellite co...

when UNAIDS put forward its vision of " Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths " , the end of AIDS only existed in an aspirational future. Now people are talking concretely about it. In a report released in July 2013 outlining the United Nations Secretary-General's vision for the next global development agenda, Ban Ki-moon called on all countries to 'realize the ...

Integrating Behavior Change Theory and Measures into Health-Based Cookstove Interventions: A Proposed Epidemiologic Research Agenda Maggie L. Clark, Judy M. Heiderscheidt & Jennifer L. Peel To cite this article: Maggie L. Clark, Judy M. Heiderscheidt & Jennifer L. Peel (2015) Integrating Behavior Change Theory and Measures into Health-Based Cookstove Interventions: A Proposed Epidemiologic Rese...