UNITED NATIONS, New York - A $57 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will tremendously strengthen efforts to protect young people in four African countries against HIV/AIDS, the...

UNITED NATIONS, New York - Ismail Awadallah Sallam, the Minister of Health and Population of Egypt, and a Mexican family planning organization, Fundacion Mexicana para la Planificacion Familiar (MEXFAM), will share the 2000 United Nations Population Award.

UNITED NATIONS, New York - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is airlifting more than six tonnes of life-saving emergency safe motherhood and reproductive health supplies to Zimbabwe to help victims of Cyclone Eline.