a USAID-funded project that, since 1984, has worked to advance understanding of health and population trends in developing countries by disseminating data free of charge from the nationally representative, global Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This website enables users to create and save interactive maps, download data tables, search for information on special topic areas (HIV, biomarkers, geographic information systems (GIS), gender), and display country profiles for more than 75 countries.