Penn State has been able to purchase a one year subscription to Latinobarometro Latinobarometro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. Penn State researchers interested in the survey can Click here for more information and access the survey.

DHS has published 3 new working papers:

• Internal Migration and the Use of Reproductive and Child Health Services in Peru (Lekha Subaiya)
• Trends in Primary and Secondary Abstinence among Kenya Youth (Chi Chiao & Vinod Mishra)
• Spousal Agreement on Waiting Time to Next Birth in Sub-Saharan Africa (Tesfayi Gebreselassie & Vinod Mishra)

Most Hispanic adults born to immigrants in the US report they are fluent in English, but only a small minority of their parents say they speak English well, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

The majority of Latino immigrants are moderately attached to their home country, and levels of attachment are related to length of time in the US, whether the individual migrated as an adult or a child, and the country of origin, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center. The report is based on new analyses of the Center’s 2006 National Survey of Latinos.

Citation: Roger Waldinger (2007, October 25). Between Here and There: How Attached are Latino Immigrants to their Native Country? Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center.

The Council of Science Editors organized a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development, in which science journals throughout the world simultaneously publish articles on this topic on October 22. 235 journals from developed and developing countries participated in the theme issue, including American Journal of Public Health, Health Education and Behavior, Journal of Adolescence, Reproductive Health Matters, and Science.

Penn State users can use the University Libraries Citation Linker to retrieve copies of individual articles.

The education budget of a single country like France, Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom outweighs education spending across the entire sub-Saharan African region, according to a new report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The Global Education Digest 2007 focuses on financing of education and includes the latest statistics on primary to tertiary education from more than 200 countries.

The UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007 (PDF) says that, halfway to the 2015 deadline, progress has been made toward the goals but there is still much work to be done.

Many in the US assume that migrants bring HIV to the US, but research has shown that migrants are frequently exposed to HIV while in the US and then bring it back to their rural Mexican communities (New York Times).

See also:

University of California Universitywide AIDS Research Program

Melissa Sanchez, George F. Lemp, Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, Enrique Bravo-Garcia, Susan Carter, & Juan D. Ruiz (2004). The epidemiology of HIV among Mexican migrants and recent immigrants in California and Mexico. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 37(Supplement 4):S204-S214. [Penn State University Libraries holdings]

Jennifer S. Hirsch, Sergio Meneses, Brenda Thompson, Mirka Negroni, Blanca Pelcastre, & Carlos del Rio (2007). The Inevitability of Infidelity: Sexual Reputation, Social Geographies, and Marital HIV Risk in Rural Mexico. American Journal of Public Health 97(6):986-996. [Penn State University Libraries holdings]

Marital sex is the biggest risk for HIV infection for women because male infidelity is culturally ingrained, according to a study in rural Mexico to be published in the American Journal of Public Health. Studies in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea (also to appear in AJPH) found similar results. Additional studies are underway in Uganda and Vietnam (press release on Science Blog).

An article in today’s Centre Daily Times looks at the lure of the United States for Latin American scientists.