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The Ecuador Free Maternity Law: Crucial Advance for Reproductive Health and Rights

ECUADOR—Ecuador's Parliament passed a landmark piece of legislation in 1998.

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World Population Day 2005: Observances Around the World

A number of events, held by UNFPA and its partners on World Population Day, 11 July, raised awareness of population and development issues worldwide.

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Meeting Women's Needs, Supporting Aceh's Future

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—The people of Aceh are eager to get their lives back.

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UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Becomes Youngest Portuguese to Win National Honour

LISBON, Portugal—Portuguese actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Catarina Furtado, has been awarded Portugal's "Ordem de Mérito – Comendador," as part of her country's national day celebrations in…

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Voices of Youth on HIV/AIDS

UNITED NATIONS, New York—To win the battle against HIV and AIDS, it is crucial that young people be seen as actors, rather than spectators, and as part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.

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Preventing HIV Among Gang Members, Migrants, Youth in Central America and the Caribbean

San Pedro Sula, Honduras—How do you reach gang-members in Belize, migrants in Guatemala and school dropouts in Honduras with information about preventing HIV?

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Two Seattle Volunteers Making a Difference in the Fight Against Fistula

In January 2004, millions of Americans tuned in to the Oprah Winfrey Show and learned of a little-known childbearing injury called obstetric fistula.

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El Salvador: Preventing Children from Having Children

SOYAPANGO, El Salvador — "I don’t want to spoil my future by repeating the mistakes my mother made", says 16-year-old Karla.

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Laotian Youth Teach Peers to Protect Their Reproductive Health

PHONTONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A visiting health education team has set up a stage and loudspeakers, and the whole village has come to watch.

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