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Broadening the Grounds on Which Abortion is Legal: Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Health Indicators
Unsafe abortion is a major cause of maternal death, accounting for 15 per cent of all maternal deaths globally, almost all of which occur in countries with restrictive abortion laws. This discussion paper sought to offer insight into the question, “What are the effects on sexual and reproductive health indicators of broadening the conditions under which abortion is legal?”
Saving the Lives of Women, Girls and Newborn Babies: Programme Managers' role
This brief outlines the steps that programme managers can take to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in East and Southern Africa. In the region, more than 49 million women who want to plan their families cannot get access to modern family planning. An estimated 830 women and adolescent girls die needlessly every day because of complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
Saving the Lives of Women, Girls and Newborn Babies: Policy and Decision-makers' role
This brief outlines the steps that policy and decision-makers can take to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in East and Southern Africa. In the region, more than 49 million women who want to plan their families cannot get access to modern family planning. An estimated 830 women and adolescent girls die needlessly every day because of complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
Saving the Lives of Women, Girls and Newborn Babies: Private Sector's Role
This brief outlines the steps that the private sector can take to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in East and Southern Africa. In the region, more than 49 million women who want to plan their families cannot get access to modern family planning. An estimated 830 women and adolescent girls die needlessly every day because of complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
Saving the Lives of Women, Girls and Newborn Babies: Community Leaders' and Civil Society's role
This brief outlines the steps that policy and decision-makers can take to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in East and Southern Africa. In the region, more than 49 million women who want to plan their families cannot get access to modern family planning. An estimated 830 women and adolescent girls die needlessly every day because of complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
Saving the Lives of Women, Girls and Newborn Babies: Parliamentarians' role
UNFPA is partnering with governments to finance contraception and family planning. Members of Parliament (MPs) are important for the success of these partnerships as they ensure government commitment to contribute domestic financial resources to buy medicines and other supplies. MPs are critical for mobilizing and allocating government resources, and for using their goodwill with the private sector and other partners to raise additional local funds.
Advancing Sex Workers’ Health and Welfare Programming in East and Southern Africa
This framework seeks to guide the region to execute a more coordinated and inclusive response to the many challenges faced by sex workers in the region. It will also contribute to the acceleration of the HIV response and assist the region in meeting the 2025 HIV targets and ultimately ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response
Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response supports the delivery of quality maternal and newborn health care. A joint effort with UNICEF East and Southern Africa Regional Office and WHO Regional Office Africa, this report represents the status of in East and Southern Africa in 2021, documenting progress made since 2016.
Dispelling myths around cervical cancer screening
All but one of the 20 countries with the highest caseload of cervical cancer in the world are
in Africa. 2gether 4 SRHR is working to increase the number of women and girls screened
and improve treatment services.
What Works in HIV Prevention? Promising Practices from East and Southern Africa
There is no time to lose if the East and Southern Africa region is to meet the 2025 targets for HIV prevention. UNFPA has collected examples of successful interventions for HIV prevention in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and Uganda, each containing a selection of evidence-based priority actions.