"This paper was prepared by the Pacific Islands Development Program for the Disaster Preparedness Strategies Seminar, March 23-25, 1983, Suva, Fiji."

Asia, with more than half of the world's population, is in the early phases of an explosive HIV/AIDS epidemic. While AIDS became a significant factor in the Western Hemisphere and in Africa in the early 1980s, the disease ...

The Indian family welfare program has been dominated for decades by a reliance on female sterilization. NFHS results, however, show that Indian women tend to undergo sterilization only after giving birth to many children. ...

Although infant and child mortality decreased between 1993 and 1999, 7 percent of all children born in India still die during the first year of life, and 9 percent die before reaching age five. Among the most striking ...

This paper was presented at the workshop In Whose Interests? The Future of the US Military in Asia, held at the East-West Center, February 20-22, 2003. As an initial review of how the current US military presence in Mindanao ...