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Getting To Zero
The year 2021 was a challenging one for the communities, the world, and for the millions of young women and girls in East and Southern Africa. Through disruptions and changes, our resilience, our agility, our sense of purpose remained solid. Read how we rose to the challenge in our 2021 annual report.
Responding to Climate Change Requires Health Systems Strengthening
This infographic looks at why responses to climate change must focus on health systems strengthening, including sexual and reproductive health services, supplies and gender-based violence services and response.
The Negative Impact of Climate Change on Maternal Health
This infographic looks at how climate change directly and indirectly impacts maternal health, making pregnancy less safe and worsening neonatal health outcomes.
Environmental Crises Exacerbate Some Drivers of Child Marriage
This infographic explains why upholding sexual and reproductive health and rights during environmental instability caused by climate change means taking action on child marriage.
Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence
Climate change creates and exacerbates circumstances conducive to gender-based violence. This infographic draws the links and explains why responses to climate action must include gender-based violence.
Bodily Autonomy and Access to Family Planning are Essential for Responding to Climate Change
This infographic draws the links between climate change, family planning and bodily autonomy. It explains why we need to strengthen individual and community resilience by investing in a healthy, educated and empowered population whose sexual and reproductive health needs are addressed.
Women Who Sell Sex in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Scoping Review of Non-Barrier Contraception, Pregnancy and Abortion
A scoping review methodology was employed with the aim to collate findings on non-barrier contraception, pregnancies, and abortion amongst WSS in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA).
Recommendations: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Climate Action
The climate crisis negatively impacts sexual and reproductive health, and the ability to realize fundamental human rights. Read UNFPA's recommendations on achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights and climate action.
Frequently Asked Questions: UNFPA and the Climate Crisis
Climate change is a major threat to the vision of people-centred sustainable development. It multiplies existing health vulnerabilities, through its impact on equitable access to both health care and education within resilient systems and its effect on adequate access to safe water, improved sanitation and food insecurity. Current efforts to adapt to climate change are simply insufficient. Read about why UNFPA is taking up the cudgel for climate action.
Safeguard Young People Programme 2021 Annual Report
The regional Safeguard Young People (SYP) programme empowers adolescents and young people aged 10 to 24 years to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), early and unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, early marriage, gender-based violence (GBV) and other harmful cultural practices. In achieving this end, the SYP programme promotes gender-equitable norms, an enabling legal and policy environment, comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), and high-quality adolescent and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health (AYFSRH) services.