DHS in the News
Journalists worldwide write about The DHS Program results. The dissemination of DHS, SPA and HIV data is often widely covered by media in survey countries, but journalists also use The DHS Program data throughout the year as background information for their stories, or to compare health and development indicators across countries. These data are also used by journalists in the United States and other developed countries, as it is considered the gold standard of population, health and nutrition data. Below are some examples of recent news coverage. Please note: The links below are to websites outside The DHS Program.
Mar 27, 2015
Sierra Leone let pregnant girls take exams AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (London, UK) |
Mar 19, 2015
Water sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities WHO and UNICEF (Geneva, Switzerland) "This report presents, for the first time, a global assessment of the extent to which health care facilities provide essential water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Drawing on data representing 66,101 facilities in 54 low- and middle-income countries, the report concludes that 38% of facilities lack access even to rudimentary levels of WASH. When a higher level of service is factored in, the situation deteriorates significantly. Large disparities exist within countries and among types of facilities..." http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/154588/1/9789241508476_eng.pdf?ua=1 |
Mar 17, 2015
How to end female genital mutilation in Egypt Lucy Westcott |
Feb 26, 2015
US push for abstinence in Africa is seen as failure against HIV Donald G. McNeil Jr. THE NEW YORK TIMES (New York) "...Originally called the World Fertility Surveys, they were begun in the 1970s. They were later subsumed into the large Demographic and Health Surveys, now paid for by the United States Agency for International Development, that document health behaviors in dozens of countries. Spending on abstinence and fidelity peaked in 2005 and began to drop after the Obama administration took office in 2009..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/health/american-hiv-battle-in-africa-said-to-falter.html?mwrsm=Email&_r=0
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Feb 23, 2015
New push for maternal health Sen David and Sarah Taguiam "...In the recently released preliminary results of the 2014 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey (CDHS), pregnancy-related deaths were recorded to have declined from 2.06 per 1,000 live births in 2010 to 1.70 in 2014. The major reason for this decrease, according to CDHS project manager and ICF International senior health specialist Dr Rathavuth Hong, is the significant improvement of national health services available to mothers..." http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-push-maternal-health |