UNFPA Asia and the Pacific

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Conference on Advocating Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services and Commodity Security

About 188,000 women in South Asia die each year due to pregnancy-related complications, accounting for more than 50 percent of Asia’s maternal deaths in 2005. All of these de...

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Youth Declaration at the 5th APCRSHR

There are approximately 450 million young people in the Asia-Pacific region, with only few of them able to receive reproductive health services. This leaves them potentially vulner...

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Reproductive Health Commodity Security Advocacy Briefs

Having adequate level of political commitment to reproductive health commodity security (RHCS) is key to improving national capacity to estimate current and future reproductive hea...

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Papers in Population Ageing No.5

This report focuses on the rapid demographic change that has taken place in Thailand during the last three to four decades, leading to the country becoming the most 'aged' ...

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Reproductive Health of Ethnic Minority Groups in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

The Greater Mekong Sub-Region is one of the fastest growing economic sub-regions in the world and is expected to emerge as an important economic hub in Asia. But many of Mekong'...

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Asia and the Pacific Regional Forum on Strengthening Partnerships with Faith-Based Organisations in Addressing ICPD

UNFPA country offices in Asia and the Pacific region and faith-based organizations came together for a two-day consultation to assess the impact of their partnership in the areas o...

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The Impact of Social Pensions: Perceptions of Asian Older Persons

World population is ageing fast. The number of people aged 60 years and over is projected to double in the next four decades. In Asia, the proportion of older population is expecte...

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Papers in Population Ageing No.2

Migration of young people from rural areas is an inexorable component of the socio-economic change taking place throughout the developing world. How this migration affects the well...

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Enhancing Equity in Access to Health Care in the Asia-Pacific Region: Remediable Inequities

Equity in access to health services is an issue in many countries in Asia-Pacific. There is a large disparity in access between the rich and the poor, and urban and rural areas. Ma...