11 July 2012
Statement
Giving birth is typically the most joyful moment in a woman’s life. Yet this very process takes the life of so many women worldwide. Every day, some 800 women die in pregnancy or…
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News
A high-level advocacy workshop held in Ethiopia ahead of the upcoming Family Planning Summit in London heard that one in four married women in Ethiopia has an unmet need for…
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Press Release
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 2 July 2012 — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is calling on governments around the world to commit more resources to the critical issue of…
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Produce children you can look after well, the Rwandan Minister of Finance and Economic Planning urged residents as he joined them in a community clean up campaign in Kigali City. …
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Press Release
UNITED NATIONS, New York — The World’s Heads of State and Government unanimously adopted a common global vision that reaffirmed their commitments made in the Programme of Action…
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Press Release
The number of women with an unmet need for modern contraception increased in sub-Saharan Africa, from 31 million in 2008 to 36 million in 2012. This is according to a new study…
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Press Release
A new study by the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, finds that the number of women in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy but are…
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The world’s population surpassed 7 billion last October and is expected to grow to 9 billion by the middle of this century. The paramount challenge of sustainability is to meet…
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News
The government of Rwanda has developed a national strategic plan for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV by 2015, in collaboration with its partners in…
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