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Helping youth make healthy choices
Rwanda launched a teacher training programme geared towards equipping teachers and partners in the education sector on key features of the new... Read more
UNFPA supports drought-affected Ethiopia
In support of areas that have been severely affected by the El Niño-induced drought, UNFPA handed over reproductive health medicines, equipment and... Read more
Restoring women's dignity in Zimbabwe
In 1981, heavily pregnant Mary Maropa* left her village in Nkayi for hospital, expecting to return with a newborn baby. Little did she know that she would return instead with urine leaking... Read more
‘My mission was to save her life’
Catherine Agibo’s mother was a traditional birth attendant. She grew up watching her help women give birth, including some that did not end happily.... Read more
Ensuring everyone counts in Lesotho
The enumerators helping to conduct Lesotho’s 2016 Population and Housing Census were often required to walk long distances to reach each and every... Read more
Midwives: health heroes for women, adolescent girls and newborns
On this International Day of the Midwife, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, salutes the contribution of midwives to saving the lives of... Read more
Gaining life-saving BEmONC skills
In the hospital's post-natal ward, Hazvinei Masau, 31, holds her newborn child, Nyasha. She is smiling because this baby has been born safely,... Read more
Preventing child marriage in Mozambique
The Government of Mozambique launched its National Strategy for Preventing and Combating Child Marriage at a public event on 11 April. The strategy... Read more
Girls learn to fight for their rights
Life has not been easy for 15-year-old Shamiso Nyamutamba from the remote village of Mahuwe in Zimbabwe. After losing both of her parents at the age... Read more
UNFPA supports milestone census
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund has supported Angola in achieving its 2014 General Housing and Population Census.