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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
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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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02 February 2012
South Sudan's health professionals given scholarships
JUBA, South Sudan — Nine health professionals from South Sudan have been selected to participate in a one-year scholarship to gain additional skills to work as health professional…
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12 December 2011
Press Release
UNFPA launches Condomize Campaign in Addis Ababa
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 6 December 2011 — The UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, and its partners on Monday launched its Condomize Campaign to promote the use of both female…
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14 November 2011
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A small boy with a potent message
Malawi — He emerged at 3 a.m., unaware of the significance of his birth in a hospital in Malawi’s Mangochi district. The boy, born to Mayamiko Kachipande just three hours after…
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