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Volume 352:647-649 February 17, 2005 Number 7 Next

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At the first United Nations–sponsored international conference on population — held in Bucharest, Romania, in 1974 — the United States and other Western nations advocated the implementation of programs aimed at controlling the high rates of population growth then prevalent in resource-poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Most leaders from these countries, however, saw this as an inappropriate, imperialist goal to be imposed on their countries, when the real problems were related to poverty. Ten years later, at the second international conference in Mexico City, representatives of the Reagan administration argued that population growth was not a key . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Rosenfield is the dean and Ms. Schwartz a graduate research assistant at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York.

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