UNFPA Equatorial Guinea
Despite rapid economic growth from oil and gas revenues, the majority of people in Equatorial Guinea still live in poverty, and rates of maternal mortality and teenage pregnancy are high. Active in the country since 1980, UNFPA helps strengthen national capacities to provide emergency obstetric and newborn care, as well as essential sexual and reproductive health services for marginalized adolescents and young people. UNFPA also works with national institutions to amend laws to protect women’s rights, and to produce high-quality demographic data on population dynamics, youth, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health.