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They are saving our lives
For Mpopi, 33, travelling 80 km every month to reach the nearest clinic providing access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) was nearly impossible. Read her story.
Driving Change in East and Southern Africa
East and Southern Africa has made impressive gains in the reproductive health of its people. Yet, as we count these achievements, we must ensure we maintain the momentum to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals. With 521 million people, the region’s reproductive health challenges are vast: maternal mortality and morbidity, HIV infection, low contraception use, early marriage, teen pregnancy and gender-based violence, underpinned by gender inequality. Also, gains are quickly reversed during conflict and humanitarian crises. There is no time to lose - together, we need to make change happen.
UNFPA East and Southern Africa
UNFPA team and partners in the East and Southern Africa region continue to carry out activities aimed at achieving the overall vision: a region where the sexual and reproductive health of women is achieved and the transformative potentials of young people, especially adolescent girls, are fulfilled. This booklet summarizes the region's challenges and our achievements in addressing them in 2014-2015.
How effective is comprehensive sexuality education in preventing HIV?
This brief discusses the effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality education in preventing HIV, and lists key findings and recommendations.
What works to prevent HIV among adolescent girls?
This brief looks at the evidence on what works to prevent HIV infection in adolescent girls, and provides key findings and recommendations.
What works to prevent HIV among sex workers?
This evidence brief provides evidence on what works to prevent HIV among sex workers.
Crisis in Burundi
UNFPA has worked in Burundi since 1980 and throughout its civil war. After 2006, peace allowed UNFPA and its partners to expand their outreach, resulting in a promising progress curve for the reproductive health of Burundians. However, Burundi exploded in pre-electoral violence in April 2015. Just when the nation was rebuilding its social fabric and improving the economy, the socio-political unrest erased those gains and brought untold misery. The United Nations warns that the humanitarian situation could deteriorate quickly, even without full-blown conflict, given Burundi’s fragility. In very difficult conditions, UNFPA and its partners multiply interventions among internally displaced and refugee populations to improve reproductive health services and care for survivors of gender-based violence. To continue and expand our work, we require almost US$8,700,000.
State of World Population 2015
We live in a world where humanitarian crises exact mounting costs from economies, communities and individuals. Wars and natural disasters make the headlines, at least initially. Less visible but also costly are the crises of fragility, vulnerability and growing inequality, confining millions of people to the most tenuous hopes for peace and development.
Realizing the Demographic Dividend
The Demographic Dividend is an evidence-based economic development phenomenon and the focus of nearly 20 years of research by economists, demographers, and health scientists.
Report of the High-Level Ministerial Dialogue on Harnessing the Demographic Dividend for Agenda 2063
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), held a high level ministerial dialogue with African Ministers in charge of planning, finance and economic development on the issue of harnessing Africa’s potential demographic dividend on the 29thMarch 2015. This high level event occurred on the margins of the First Specialized Technical Committee on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration and the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, which was devoted to the theme of ‘Implementing Agenda 2063 - Planning, Mobilizing and Financing for Development’.