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Final RHCS CCP Assessment Report

After years of responding to ad hoc requests from countries for technical assistance and supplies, UNFPA developed the GPRHCS in 2008. After 3-5 years of UNFPA’s support for the development and implementation of national strategic plans, the former Sub Regional Office-Johannesburg began undertaking a review of countries’ progress to-date to understand their status and recommend appropriate direction.
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ESA Position Paper on Post-shipment Testing of Condoms

Assessment of Comprehensive Condom Programming (CCP) and reproductive health commodity security (RHCS conducted) conducted by the UNFPA Eastern and Southern Africa sub-Regional Office in May/June 2011, indicated that a total of 13 countries would require post-shipment testing of condoms irrespective of their being sourced from pre-qualified suppliers.
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CARMMA 2013

Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality

Since CARMMA, the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa was launched in 2009, 37 African countries have launched the initiative and more are preparing to do so. Continentally, the campaign has made tremendous progress since those early days, with several countries adopting National Road Maps and developing Strategic Health Development Plans. Following on from the CARMMA report published in 2012, this latest edition provides an update on the maternal mortality rate in the countries that have implemented CARMMA and the steps that are being taken to rectify high maternal mortality ratios.
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Adding It Up: Costs and Benefits of Contraceptive Services

This report presents new 2012 estimates of the numbers and proportions of women in the developing world using modern methods and in need of modern contraception, as well as the cost and impact of meeting this need.
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Ageing in the Twenty-first Century

A celebration and a challenge

Ageing is now occurring fastest in the developing world, which has limited resources and plans to deal with this unprecedented demographic trend. This new report calls for new approaches to dealing with healthcare, workforce and retirement issues, living arrangements and intergenerational relations.
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Annual Report 2011

Delivering Results in a World of 7 Billion

This report provides an overview of UNFPA's achievements in 2011 in linking population dynamics and development, increasing access to maternal and newborn health, increasing availability of family planning, strengthening HIV-prevention services, advocating gender equality and reproductive rights, and increasing young people’s access to services.
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Impact

Cameroon’s 2011 Annual Report, Impact, is a knowledge-sharing platform focusing on concrete results and achievements.
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UNFPA Africa Impact

Report 2012

UNFPA Africa Impact is a three-year retrospective report showcasing the organization’s progress and achievements in improving people’s lives in sub-Saharan Africa. Delivered in an easy-to-read, magazine style format, it details the focus of UNFPA's work in the region, the challenges faced in sub-Saharan Africa, and how UNFPA is changing this picture.
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UNFPA Africa Regional Framework

On Working with Men and Boys for the Promotion on Gender Equality & Sexual and Reproductive Health

Working with men and boys for the promotion of gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health is key to the attainment of substantive equality. This work acknowledges the ground-breaking contribution made by the women’s movement over many years, starting with ICPD and Beijing, to date.
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Sex Work and HIV in Namibia: Review of the literature and current programmes

The objective of this literature review was to consolidate all known information about sex work and HIV in Namibia and provide an objective knowledge base that can inform programming and advocacy efforts as well as further research. The review also includes a mapping which outlines all key partners working on HIV and sex work and their main focus.
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