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Building Demand for Long-Acting Contraceptives in Southern Ethiopia
Ethiopia
WOLAITA SODO, Ethiopia — It’s no ordinary day for Fanaye Fanta. This is the first time she has inserted a slim plastic rod (Implanon), which serves as a long-acting contraceptive, into a woman’s arm.
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Obstetric Fistula in Pakistan - Another Blight on the Child Bride
Pakistan
<p>KARACHI --- It was personal experience that turned Gul Bano and her cleric husband, Ahmed Khan, into ambassadors against early marriage and its worst corollary – obstetric fistula which allows excretory matter…
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After the Floods: Preventing Gender-based Violence in Colombia
Colombia
<p>Some 180 women from communities affected by flooding and armed violence in Colombia’s Córdoba department have come together in the town of Santa Cruz de Lorica to build a women’s shelter.</p>
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Counting the World: New Documentary Explores the Census
Counting is one of the most basic intellectual tasks that children learn as a way to understand their world. This simple task, taken to the national level in the form of a population and housing census, becomes one of…
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Global Lawmakers Adopt Resolution to Support Maternal and Child Health
Uganda
KAMPALA -- The Inter-Parliamentary Union, the world’s largest body of lawmakers, has approved a resolution to secure access to health, as a basic human right, for women and children.
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Log In and Listen: Melinda Gates Shares her Thoughts about Family Planning
Germany
BERLIN— The Big Picture, a TEDxChange event about applying new perspectives to development issues, launches 5 April. Convened by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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UNFPA Executive Director Urges Parliamentarians to Keep People at the Centre of Development
Uganda
KAMPALA – Parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in ensuring meaningful, people-centred development.
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Three Winners Announced for the '1 in 7 Billion' Film Competition
Three short films capturing three very different perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of today’s complex world have been voted as winners in the ‘1 in 7 Billion’ film contest.
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So Many Mouths to Feed: Addressing High Fertility in Famine-Stricken Somalia
Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia– In Dabke camp for internally displaced persons in Mogadishu, Muno Abukar shares a tent with her eight children. Fleeing the famine, the family left their home in Lower Shabelle five months ago.
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Learning to Love the Female Condom in Uganda
Uganda
NEBBI, Uganda — Hundreds of women from all walks of life gathered in a school field here recently to celebrate International Women’s Day.
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Technology to the Rescue: Innovative Tools for Responding to Disaster
Philippines
The world is connected as never before. Radio reaches even the most remote and vulnerable, and the number of mobile phones has grown exponentially over the past decade.
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Talking Census Under the Baobob Tree
Tanzania, United Republic of
BUYU, Zanzibar — In this picturesque village on the outskirts of Zanzibar Town, UNFPA programme officers joined colleagues from the Office of the Chief Statistician in Zanzibar to learn more about the pilot census…
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