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A Look at How Ethnic Beliefs Affect Maternal and Child Health in Four Countries
Barriers to improving maternal and child health among ethnic minorities boil down to beliefs and practices that do not fit neatly into modern practices and services.
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Saying No: 16 Days Against Gender Violence
Milena left her husband seven years ago after enduring years of physical and emotional violence. She could not take the abuse any longer or the way the rest of her family ignored it and remained silent.
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Daring to Speak About HIV Prevention in Morocco and Egypt
Globally, the vast majority of people who are HIV-positive – 80 per cent – contracted the virus through unprotected sex – that is, by not using a male or a female condom. This raises a crucial question: Since condoms…
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Worldwide Focus on Family Planning Begins at West African Forum
DAKAR, Senegal The second International Conference on Family Planning opened yesterday in the capital here, aiming to draw on renewed political support and funding for family planning, as well as highlighting new…
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Young MPs Vow to Protect Reproductive Rights Back Home
KRABI, Thailand – The young Parliamentarians who gathered here recently at an international conference on sexual and reproductive health rights agreed to strengthen their work on these issues when they returned home.
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Griots Help Reduce Cutting in Guinea
GUINEA — The rite of female genital mutilation/cutting may be hard to end, but it is slowly happening in at least one corner of eastern Guinea, Guinée Forestière, in West Africa.
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UNFPA Supports Iran’s 2011 Census
TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of Iran— This country’s 2011 Population and Housing Census, which is run by the Statistical Center of Iran, a longstanding UNFPA partner, officially closed on Sunday, 13 November. This year, the…
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A Malawi Newborn With a Potent Message
MALAWI — He emerged at 3 a.m., unaware of the significance of his birth in a hospital in the Mangochi district. The boy, born to Mayamiko Kachipande just hours after the global population mark of midnight on 31 October…
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Saving a Girl in Dadaab From More Suffering
DADAAB, Kenya -- “One of the patients, a 17-year-old girl, Madina, touched my heart,” Dr. Weston, a Kenyan, says. “We just celebrated the 7 billionth baby, but what this girl went through is so shameful that looking at…
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