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Ending unmet need for family planning
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Pledges to Give Poor Women Access to Family Planning Are Having an Impact
30 May 2013
KUALA LUMPUR—Enabling family planning use to empower girls and women and protect their health was the theme of day two of the Women Deliver conference. Nine months after…
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UNFPA Drives Family Planning Innovation to Reach World’s Most Marginalized, at Major Women’s Health Conference
23 May 2013
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 22 May 2013—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, will launch two new initiatives that will increase access to family planning and improve maternal…
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Commission on the Status of Women: A Breakthrough for the Health and Rights of Women and Girls
22 May 2013
The agreed conclusions of the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in March, 2013 promise to protect women and girls from violence and to initiate…
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Inaugural Day to End Fistula Highlights Progress, Challenges
21 May 2013
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 20 May 2013—Countries around the world will mark the first-ever International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, 23 May, with a variety of events to raise…
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Minority Midwives at the Centre of Viet Nam’s Strategy to Reduce Maternal and Child Deaths
04 May 2013
HA NOI—In an effort to make childbirth safer for ethnic minority women, who typically give birth at home, Viet Nam has trained 1,000 minority midwives from 30 provinces. Chamaléa…
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VIA Screening Turns a New Page in Preventing Cervical Cancer in the Maldives
28 April 2013
MALE’, the Maldives--To better prevent and treat cervical cancer, the Ministry of Health and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, have begun to promote a new methodology to…
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Strengthening Birth and Death Registration
19 April 2013
19 April 2013, BANGKOK - At the first-ever Global Summit on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) that concluded today in Bangkok, governments, UN and development…
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Myanmar Tests Procedures for Its 2014 Census
02 April 2013
YANGON—The Myanmar Government with support from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, undertook a pilot census exercise from 30 March to 10 April to prepare for a nationwide…
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Addressing emerging challenges of fertility decline: Key to maintaining the country's sustainable development
27 March 2013
Ha Noi, 27 March 2013 - During the past 50 years, many East Asian countries have witnessed a remarkable decline in Total Fertility Rates (TFR) from a high level of 5 or more…
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