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20 April 2012
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Namibia’s lower population growth rate is 'good'
Namibia’s population grew at an average annual rate of 1,5 per cent from 2001 to 2011, or from 1.8 million to 2.1 million people. This was announced last week during the release…
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19 April 2012
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Namibia launches new gender policy with UNFPA input
The Namibian President launched the country’s revised National Gender Policy, which the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) contributed towards, at an event to mark…
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11 April 2012
Climbing Kilimanjaro to protest violence against women
This article was written by UNFPA Tanzania Communications Analyst, Sawiche Wamunza, about her climb up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania along with 72 other climbers, who bore the…
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10 April 2012
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Preventing maternal deaths from severe after-birth bleeding
The Guardian. Thursday, 5 April 2012. By Chukwuma Muanya. A UNITED Nations (UN) Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) co…
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02 April 2012
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South Sudan gets $19.5 million for midwifery programmes
JUBA — UNFPA in South Sudan is to receive 19.5 million Canadian Dollars in funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for a four-year programme,…
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23 March 2012
Press Release
UN launches Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children
NEW YORK, 23 March 2012 — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and UNICEF today launched a high-level commission to improve access to essential but overlooked health…
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19 March 2012
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Providing reproductive health kits for South Sudan refugees
JUBA — In response to the strained humanitarian situation in South Sudan, UNFPA handed over reproductive health kits to the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, in Juba on 8…
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19 March 2012
UNFPA equips nursing and midwifery college in South Sudan
JUBA — The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA in South Sudan congratulated South Sudan’s Minister of Health and the partners involved in building and developing the Juba…
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24 February 2012
Emotions high as cutters denounce female genital cutting
AMUDAT, Uganda — It was a moment filled with emotion, that hot and sunny afternoon in a little village of Amudat, north-east Uganda. A group of women once committed to female…
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