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Fallen Wombs, Broken Lives: Responding to Uterine Prolapse in Nepal
Nepal
KAPILVASTU DISTRICT, Nepal — Thanks to a recent hysterectomy, Dhana Kala Rokka Magar feels like a new person. At age 60, she has become a passionate health advocate, in the hopes that others will not suffer as much as…
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Innovative Ways of Commemorating World Population Day Around the World
For two million Sri Lankans, the message of UNFPA’s World Population Day arrived right in the palm of their hands.
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Finding Ways to Deliver for Women where Doctors are in Short Supply
Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Across most of sub-Saharan Africa, there are fewer than five doctors for every 100,000 people. Each year 20,000 health professionals leave their posts to pursue jobs in urban areas outside their…
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Family Planning in Kenya: Not For Women Only
Kenya
KISUMU, Kenya — In a makeshift room inside an unfinished building in the Manyatta slums in the Western Kenyan city of Kisumu, the neighbourhood’s men regularly congregate to discuss community matters, usually in the…
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The Unfinished Agenda of Family Planning
South Africa
UNITED NATIONS — Funding for and attention to family planning has been declining for the past decade. At the same time, 200 million women still lack access to contraception, the largest youth generation ever is coming…
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"I watched a woman die": The Death of a Ugandan Mother
Uganda
KATINE, Uganda — On a recent trip to Katine, in north-east Uganda, I witnessed the death of a woman who haemorrhaged after giving birth.
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Goodwill Ambassador Catarina Furtado Finds Progress on Maternal Health during her Visit to Guinea-Bissau
Guinea
GABU, Guinea-Bissau — A year ago, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Catarina Furtado laid the first brick for the construction of a maternity surgical unit in this dusty town in eastern Guinea-Bissau.
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UNFPA Applauds the Adoption of a Landmark Resolution on Maternal Health
Kenya
GENEVA — The Human Rights Council today adopted the resolution on ‘Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights’.
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Highlights of the Fistula Campaign 2008
The devastation of obstetric fistula affects some 2 million women across the developing world, with approximately 50,000 to 100,000 new cases occurring every year.
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Prescription for Global Health in the Face of Crisis: Invest in Women
UNITED NATIONS — In his opening address to his Forum on Advancing Global Health in the Face of Crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called attention to the links between health and all of the Millennium Development…
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Ban 'Dismayed' by Terrorist Attack Killing UN Colleagues in Pakistan
Pakistan
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed “dismay” today at the rising death toll from yesterday’s suicide bombing of a hotel in north-west Pakistan, which killed members of the UNFPA humanitarian relief team, among…
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The Toll of Maternal Death Remains High but is Gaining Attention
NEW YORK -- Every minute, a woman dies in the developing world as a result of pregnancy or childbirth. For years, the tragic deaths of 500,000 mothers each year has been more or less invisible.
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