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UN Secretary-General and UNFPA Executive Director visit Nigeria to Promote Women’s and Children’s Health

Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin visited Nigeria this week to promote ‘Every Woman, Every Child’, a global campaign for women’s and children’s health.

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Conference Calls for Increased Investments in Young People in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

ISTANBUL — Government and civil society representatives from 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia agreed to take action on priority areas to promote the health and well-being of the region’s young people.

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World Parliamentarians Appeal for Investing in Girls

PARIS – A group of parliamentarians committed to population and development issues have called on governments meeting at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, to invest substantially in protecting girls.

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Young Leaders Fund: Supporting Youth-Led HIV Prevention Initiatives

Young people below age 30 account for an estimated 45 per cent of new HIV infections worldwide. Millions more have lost friends or family members to AIDS.

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Using Mobile Phones to Tackle Fistula in Tanzania

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Across Africa, cell phones are rapidly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

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Protecting the Indigenous Forest Dwellers of Republic of Congo

UNITED NATIONS, New York – The indigenous forest dwellers of the Republic of Congo are in danger of extinction, warns David Lawson, UNFPA Representative in that country. 

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Training Midwives to Care for the Mothers of South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan — Following decades of conflict and uncertainty in South Sudan, everything has to be rebuilt. Although the region’s capital, Juba, is now thriving following five years of peace, rural areas lack even…

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Ministers Briefed on 'State of the World's Midwifery' at World Health Assembly

<p>GENEVA — Some 120 representatives of Ministries of Health and development partners gathered during a side breakfast meeting at the World Health Assembly to discuss the preliminary findings of the first-ever…

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Symposium Highlights Increasing Number of Young Migrants

<p>NEW YORK – UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake has highlighted the increasingly important issue of young people’s migration at an international symposium.</p>

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