Part of the Foundation's work in population aims to improve family-planning programs and fertility-control methods; and also to encourage national leaders to consider the effects of population growth and distribution on social and economic welfare. This work builds on other population-related activities supported by the Foundation in the United States and abroad. They include efforts to improve the health of mothers and children; to develop economic and other opportunities for women and men that will reduce their reliance on large numbers of children; to expand women's education and income-generating opportunities; and to address various problems caused by the increased movement of refugees and migrants throughout the world (see pages 10, 18, 38, 42, and 76).

Grants this year to the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research (Bangladesh) and to the Ministry of Health and Population Control of the Government of Bangladesh will assist a program to promote women's reproductive health.

In 1983 the Bangladeshi government introduced a national program of population control, but the results have been disappointing, in part because so many women have discontinued the use of contraceptives. Common reasons given for discontinuation are pelvic pain, vaginal discharge, and other symptoms of infection in the genital tract. At present, family-planning personnel do not screen clients for