UNFPA ESARO

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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 go...

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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 rest...

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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 ...

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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 cont...

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Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response

A joint UNFPA effort together with UNICEF East and Southern Africa Regional Office and WHO Regional Office Africa, this report represents the status of Maternal and Perinatal Death...

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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 scree...

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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 HI...

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Learning and insights to improve joint UN programming at the regional level: Lessons from 2gether 4 SRHR

As a joint UN programme that combines the specialized expertise of UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF and WHO, this 2gether 4 SRHR report addresses the administrative, governance, manageme...

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Resilient Futures: Young People, the Climate Crisis, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

This guide helps the workshop facilitator explain climate change and how it links to gender and sexual and reproductive health and rights. The workshop encourages yo...

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