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Pop Star Lends Her Voice to Stop Maternal, Infant and Child Deaths
Tanzania, United Republic of
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – When Stara Thomas’s parents christened her after her grandmother 29 years ago, they had no idea how prophetic that name would be.
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In the Slums of Cairo, Home is a Roof Over Your Head
Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt—</strong> Feryal El Sayed has called a tiny square room and a tinier cubicle containing a kitchen and a bathroom ‘home’ for the past 15 years.</p>
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UNFPA Mobile Clinic Protects Cairo's Garbage Collectors
Egypt
AL ZARAYEB, CAIRO — Garbage is everywhere in this part of the city. But after a few minutes, the acrid odor begins to subside as one’s nose becomes accustomed to the stench.
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Record-Breaking Donation from Portuguese Public
Portugal
LISBON, Portugal</strong> — UNFPA’s Goodwill Ambassador in Portugal, Catarina Furtado, delivered an unprecedented €253,000 (more than $340,000) contribution to UNFPA through its Executive Director, Thoraya Ahmed…
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UNFPA Opens New Fistula Treatment Centres in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — New facilities for treating obstetric fistula patients were inaugurated in April by UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya A. Obaid and the health ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Checkpoints Compound the Risks of Childbirth for Palestinian Women
Palestine, State of
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Occupied Territory— After three hours of driving from one checkpoint to another to get to the Ramallah hospital, Fatima's labour pains were becoming unbearable.
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Reaching Out to the People When the People Can't Reach Health Care
At the 2005 World Summit, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders committed themselves to achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015 as an essential element in the fight against poverty.
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Georgia's Mobile Teams Hit the Road to Improve Reproductive Health and Save Lives
Georgia
TSKALTUBO, Georgia — The former resort community of Tskaltubo is nestled in the rugged snow-clad foothills of the Caucasus Mountains in Western Georgia.
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Special Delivery: Volunteers on Bicycles Bring Health Care to Rural Senegal
Senegal
GAMBEY, Senegal — A large black bag slung over his shoulder, Sillymane Ba pedals his rickety bicycle down a rocky, bumpy, red dirt road.
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HIV Infection Rates Among Women in Latin America and the Caribbean Continue to Increase
Argentina
BUENOS AIRES — “The HIV and AIDS epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean increasingly has a woman’s face,” Marcela Suazo, Director of UNFPA’s Divison for Latin America and the Caribbean told participants at the…
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Nepal Ceasefire Allows Mobile Team to Care for Women's Health
Nepal
SAFEBAGAR, Accham District, Nepal —“May you live 100 years! You have given me my life back,” a beaming Guma Badela told the doctor and nurse examining her.
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Risking Death to Give Life in Panama's Tropical Forests
Panama
CHIRIQUÍ PROVINCE, Panama— Giving birth to her twelfth child in her family’s straw hut in the remote mountains of Western Panama, hours away from medical services, turned deadly for Cristobalina Santos.
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