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28 July 2011
Press Release
Flood-affected Pakistanis Still Need Reproductive Health Services — UNFPA Works to Fill the Gap
ISLAMABAD – One year after Pakistan’s worst flooding in decades, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continues to deliver comprehensive reproductive health care services as…
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21 July 2011
Press Release
Asia-Pacific Countries Seek to Broaden Reach of Sexuality Education
BANGKOK (UNESCO/UNFPA news release) – Nearly 100 delegates from 18 Asia-Pacific countries met on 18-21 July to discuss how to provide more and better sexuality education for the…
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11 July 2011
Statement
World Population Day 2011
This year, on October 31st, world population reaches 7 billion. This milestone represents a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action. Today on World Population Day, I am…
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11 July 2011
Press Release
UN Campaign to Highlight Challenges and Opportunities in a World of 7 Billion
BANGKOK – As human numbers climb towards a new milestone, UNFPA has launched a global initiative to highlight the critical role population concerns will play in shaping our future…
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08 July 2011
Press Release
Timor-Leste Presents Results of 2010 Census
DILI – The National Statistics Directorate recently revealed the main results of the 2010 Population and Housing Census. Some tendencies stand out in the vast statistical material…
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05 July 2011
Press Release
UN-led Workshop Engages Sex Workers to Reduce HIV Transmission in China
BEIJING (UNFPA/UNAIDS/WHO press release) – Sex workers’ grassroots organizations met with UN agencies and government representatives to discuss how to further efforts to reduce…
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24 June 2011
News
Probing Causes of Violence Against Women in China
HUNAN, China – More than 40 men and women attended an interviewers' training last spring on the innovative use of new technology to undertake field data collection on men and…
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23 June 2011
News
New Cadre of Laotian Midwives Saving Lives
XIENG KHOUANG, Lao People’s Democratic Republic – Pregnant again after suffering a stillbirth and a miscarriage at home, Ta Sivilay is comforted to know help is now available…
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20 June 2011
A Sound Investment: Skilled Care in Bangladesh
Despite significant progress in improving maternal mortality and reproductive health services in Bangladesh, there remain serious shortfalls in maternal health outcomes and access…
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