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"Male Pill would be Widely Accepted" 3 A male contraceptive pill may be available in five to 10 years and two-thirds of men worldwide would use it ... according to the journal Human Reproduction, almost all women surveyed said they would trust their partners to take the pill. The study, which questioned 2,000 men and 2,000 women, found that men were eager to take greater responsibility in contraception and 80 percent of the women favored the idea of male hormonal contraception. birth control pill
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World Population Awareness Week 2000 4 Every minute: 380 women become pregnant 190 women face an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy 110 women experience a pregnancy-related complication 40 women have an unsafe abortion 1 woman dies from a pregnany-related complication
World Population Awareness Week 2000 4 More than one in four pregnancies worldwide each year ends in abortion.
World Population Awareness Week 2000 4 More than 75,000 women die each year due to unsafe abortion.
World Population Awareness Week 2000 6 About 5.6 million people became newly infected with HIV/AIDS in 1999. ... Each year there are 12 million new cases of syphilis, 89 million of chlamydia, 62 million of gonorrhea, and 170 million of trichomoniasis. sexually transmitted disease
World Population Awareness Week 2000 8 Eighty-six countries are unable to grow or purchase enough food to feed their populations. Over 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation - more than the populations of China and India combined. Over one billion people lack adequate housing - approximately four times the US population.
World Population Awareness Week 2000 9 A key population concern in the United States is teenage pregnancy. Over one million teenagers become pregnant in the US every year; 78 percent of these pregnancies are unplanned. Furthermore, 80 percent of these girls are unmarried and only half of the total pregnancies end in live births.
World Population Awareness Week 2000 9 Each year 12 million Americans contract a STD; one fourth are teenagers.
World Population Awareness Week 2000 9 The current United States' funding level of $385 million (down from $585 million in 1995) is inadequate for international population assistance.
World Population Awareness Week 2000 10 Roughly 75 percent of the man-made global warming pollution currently in the atmosphere comes from industrialized nations. greenhouse effect climate change