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UNFPA-Trained Volunteers Lend Social Support to Grieving Sri Lankan Women

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calendar_today07 February 2005

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka—Sitting in a tent in the stifling heat, Latha Wijesiri, a volunteer health worker, talks quietly with four women about their immediate emotional and physical needs.

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Aceh Tsunami Survivors Need More Family Planning Supplies

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calendar_today25 January 2005

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Nearly four weeks after the tsunami, doctors and local social workers say there will be an increased demand for contraceptives among the displaced population, as couples seek to prevent pregnancies…

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Sri Lankan Maternity Hospital Staff Copes With Crisis

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calendar_today20 January 2005

GALLE, Sri Lanka—Dr. Samarasinghe was in the middle of a Caesarean section when the first of three massive waves slammed into the Maternity Hospital in the south coast city of Galle.

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Sri Lanka: Young People Pitch in to Assist Survivors of Tsunami Disaster

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calendar_today17 January 2005

COLOMBO—In a quiet, leafy enclave in Sri Lanka’s capital, 35 young volunteers work in assembly line fashion putting together emergency hygienic supplies.

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UNFPA Re-affirms its Commitment to the Family as the Basic Unit of Society

location_onEgypt

calendar_today07 December 2004

UNITED NATIONS, New York—The 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) underscored the importance of families as “central to human societies.”

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Voices of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Honduras

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calendar_today26 November 2004

San Pedro Sula, Honduras —Ana and Virginia consider themselves sisters. They do not share the same parents, but they are fighting the same disease and are united in their determination to stay healthy for as long as…

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And the Council Agrees, Strongly Condemns Gender Violence, Rights Violations; Urges Immediate Halt

calendar_today01 November 2004

UNITED NATIONS, New York—After strong statements and appeals by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA — the United Nations Population Fund – and several others, the Security Council last week strongly…

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Enduring and Overcoming the Ordeal of Fistula

location_onSudan

calendar_today19 October 2004

Khartoum, Sudan—The midday sun in this desert capital is merciless. Nevertheless, a handful of women endure the hundred-degree heat by sharing the sparse shade of a few trees in the courtyard of the Dr. Abbo Fistula…

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World's Newest Country Counts Self

location_onTimor-Leste

calendar_today04 October 2004

Preliminary results of the first total census in Timor-Leste since its independence in 2002 were released in the capital, Dili, earlier this month.

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Struggling to End Female Genital Cutting in Uganda

location_onUganda

calendar_today23 September 2004

Betty Cheboi sits uneasily on a small wooden bench in her ramshackle shop perched on the edge of a jagged ravine in the remote hill community of Kapchorwa, near Mt. Elgon in western Uganda.

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Rwandan Parliamentarians Work To Halve Maternal Deaths

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calendar_today18 August 2004

KIBUYE, Rwanda — The network of Rwandan parliamentarians this week outlined a bold four-point advocacy programme to reduce maternal deaths by 40 per cent by increasing the nation’s low contraceptive prevalence rate of 4…

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Germany's Government 'Called to Account'

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calendar_today13 August 2004

Alfred Biolek, prominent German television personality and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, presented a giant invoice to the State Secretary of the German Ministry for Development and Economic Cooperation, Erich Stather.