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Ministers at Women Deliver Pledge to Ensure Universal Access to Family Planning
Malaysia
<p>KUALA LUMPUR <b>- </b>Women Deliver 2013 ended in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday with a pledge by participating government Ministers to ensure that sexual and reproductive health is central to the post-…
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UNFPA Patron Addresses Women Deliver Conference in Malaysia
Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – “The evidence is so clear. So why is this agenda so far from being completed?” This was the question posed by H.R.H Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, at the Women Deliver conference in Malaysia,…
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'Girls and Women Must Be at the Heart of Post-2015 Development Agenda'
Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR--Women's place in the global development agenda took centre stage on the final day of the Women Deliver conference.
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Born into Crisis: Unwanted Pregnancies in Syria
Syrian Arab Republic
ZA’ATARI CAMP - When aid workers with the UNFPA speak to women inside Syria - many of them displaced from their homes and living in cramped collective shelters - they say they would rather do anything than get pregnant…
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Investing in Women and Girls Pays: Highlights from Women Deliver
Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR --- The imperative to invest in girls and women was spotlighted at the opening of the Women Deliver conference, where more than 3,000 people from 150 countries are sharing information and strategies, …
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Pledges to Give Poor Women Access to Family Planning Are Having an Impact
Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR—Enabling family planning use to empower girls and women and protect their health was the theme of day two of the Women Deliver conference.
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Midwife Finds her Work with Refugees Challenging and Rewarding
Jordan
ZA’ATRI CAMP, Jordan –- Holding a newborn in her hands is like “heaven” says a young midwife Ghadeer Taher Horani, who struggled to find the exact words to describe the feeling of delivering babies.
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Symposium Identifies Ways to Strengthen Quality Midwifery Care
Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR—Two thirds of maternal and newborn deaths – 3.6 million between now and 2015 – could be averted if enough skilled midwives were providing care during childbirth.
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Voices of Midwives
Malaysia
Midwives from around the world came to Kuala Lumpur in May 2013 for the Second Global Midwifery Symposium. No one knows more about the challenge, and joys, of saving mothers’ lives than these healthcare workers on the…
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Technology is Transforming the Future of Development
Bangladesh
Across the remote, rural areas of the developing world, childbearing is fraught with danger. And when life-threatening complications arise, as they do — often unpredictably — women are simply too far to reach lifesaving…
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Overcoming Fistula in Madagascar
Madagascar
MAHAJANGA, Madagascar — Every day, 10 women die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth in Madagascar. Many more survive, but suffer from untreated complications of pregnancy, including the most…
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Protecting the Rights, Unleashing the Potential of Indigenous Girls in Rural Guatemala
Guatemala
CHITIXL, Guatemala --- "In my village girls do not have access to information nor education," said Sonia Delfina Cho Tún from the Chitixl community in the lush northern highlands of the country. "There…
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