State of World Population 2003
Some 1.2 billion people--one person in five--are between ages 10 and 19, the largest number of adolescents in history. Half of them are poor; one in…
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Adolescents: Profiles in Empowerment
More than 1 billion girls and boys around the world are in their second decade of life. About 85 per cent of these young people live in developing…
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Enlisting the Armed Forces to Protect Reproductive Health and Rights
Taking advantage of the considerable organizational and human resources of military institutions to protect reproductive health and rights is…
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Learning from RHI Partnerships, 1998 - 2002
From 1998 - 2002 the European Commission, UNFPA and European and local NGOs came together under the Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia (RHI)…
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Population and Poverty
Poverty has taken centre stage in development ever since it was raised as a priority global issue in the International Conferences in the 1990s and…
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Road to Global Reproductive Health
This publication charts the development of international co-operation on reproductive health through the UN system and outlines the language and…
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Counting the People: Constraining Census Costs and Assessing Alternative Approaches
The papers in this report are based on an edited selection of presentations made at two meetings on population censuses. The first was the UNFPA/…
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Impact of HIV/AIDS
Globally, the are about 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS and no major region of the world escapes the pandemic?s invasive presence. However, by…
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Maternal Mortality Update 2002
Every minute a woman dies from lack of life-saving emergency obstetric care. Addressing this need is the centrepiece of UNFPA's efforts to make…
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