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Youth: Changing Attitudes, Improving Lives in Ecuador
Ecuador
ECUADOR—Cradled in an emerald green valley high in the Andes Mountains in southeast Ecuador, the town of Zamora doesn’t look like it’s on the ‘cutting edge’ of anything.
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The Ecuador Free Maternity Law: Crucial Advance for Reproductive Health and Rights
Ecuador
ECUADOR—Ecuador's Parliament passed a landmark piece of legislation in 1998.
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World Population Day 2005: Observances Around the World
Ecuador
A number of events, held by UNFPA and its partners on World Population Day, 11 July, raised awareness of population and development issues worldwide.
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Meeting Women's Needs, Supporting Aceh's Future
Indonesia
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—The people of Aceh are eager to get their lives back.
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UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Becomes Youngest Portuguese to Win National Honour
Portugal
LISBON, Portugal—Portuguese actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Catarina Furtado, has been awarded Portugal's "Ordem de Mérito – Comendador," as part of her country's national day celebrations in…
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Voices of Youth on HIV/AIDS
Egypt
UNITED NATIONS, New York—To win the battle against HIV and AIDS, it is crucial that young people be seen as actors, rather than spectators, and as part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
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Preventing HIV Among Gang Members, Migrants, Youth in Central America and the Caribbean
Honduras
San Pedro Sula, Honduras—How do you reach gang-members in Belize, migrants in Guatemala and school dropouts in Honduras with information about preventing HIV?
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Two Seattle Volunteers Making a Difference in the Fight Against Fistula
In January 2004, millions of Americans tuned in to the Oprah Winfrey Show and learned of a little-known childbearing injury called obstetric fistula.
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El Salvador: Preventing Children from Having Children
El Salvador
SOYAPANGO, El Salvador — "I don’t want to spoil my future by repeating the mistakes my mother made", says 16-year-old Karla.
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Laotian Youth Teach Peers to Protect Their Reproductive Health
Lao People's Democratic Republic
PHONTONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A visiting health education team has set up a stage and loudspeakers, and the whole village has come to watch.
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UNFPA, OPEC Fund, Governments Confront New Urgency of HIV Infections in Central America and the Caribbean
Honduras
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras—United Nations officials, youth representatives and policymakers in Central America and the Caribbean are meeting in San Pedro Sula, Honduras to find new methods to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS…
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Experts in Africa Meet to Develop Training Guidelines for Fistula Treatment
Niger
NIAMEY, Niger —Improved training for medical workers providing fistula treatment would help end the needless suffering of thousands of African women with obstetric fistula, experts meeting in Niger agreed on Friday.
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