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UNFPA: Making a Difference in Afghanistan

location_onAfghanistan

calendar_today22 August 2003

KABUL—In Afghanistan today, in the face of overwhelming need, even small interventions are producing real progress.

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New Web Site Provides Crucial Information on Reproductive Health and Rights

calendar_today17 July 2003

Stronger Voices for Reproductive Health, a partnership aimed at improving the quality of sexual and reproductive health in poor countries, will now be sharing its experience through cyber space.

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Afghan Teens Speak Out Against Early Marriage - World Population Day: A personal story

location_onAfghanistan

calendar_today11 July 2003

KABUL—“If my parents tried to force me to marry, I would refuse,” declared Zohal, 16, as her fellow students nodded in agreement.

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Moving Beyond Excuses: Eastern European Ad Campaign Promotes Condom Use

location_onSerbia

calendar_today05 June 2003

HIV/AIDS is spreading faster in Eastern Europe than it has anywhere else in the world.

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War-Affected Women in Freetown Get Help

location_onSierra Leone

calendar_today06 May 2003

On the outskirts of Freetown, up a red clay road gashed by hard rain, sits a makeshift shelter some women call home.

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UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Hanne-Vibeke Holst Wins Prestigious Danish Book Award

location_onDenmark

calendar_today16 April 2003

This year’s Søren Gyldendal Award has been presented to UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and best-selling fiction writer, Hanne-Vibeke Holst, in Copenhagen. Gyldendal is the largest Danish publishing house.

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Rebuilt Maternity Hospital Opens in Kabul

location_onAfghanistan

calendar_today08 April 2003

A baby boy weighing 2.85 kilograms was the first infant delivered at the newly rebuilt maternity ward of Kabul’s Khair Khana hospital, which reopened at the end of March.

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Sudan Gets New Ambulances for Obstetric Emergencies

location_onEthiopia

calendar_today07 April 2003

UNFPA recently provided the Government of Sudan with six new four-wheel drive vehicles equipped as ambulances.

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Giving hope in Zambia's largest refugee settlement

location_onZambia

calendar_today07 April 2003

Meheba, in northwest Zambia, is home to more than 50,000 refugees – mainly from Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with smaller numbers coming from Rwanda, Burundi and other countries in the region.

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Enforce Laws To Free Women From Slavery, Violence, Says UNFPA Deputy Executive Director

location_onBangladesh

calendar_today21 March 2003

<p>Ministers and parliamentarians should enforce existing laws, to kick gender violence out of homes, communities and nations, UNFPA's Deputy Executive Director (Management), Imelda Henkin, has urged.</p…

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The Santa Maria/Sal Commitment

location_onSouth Africa

calendar_today13 March 2003

We the African Women Ministers and Parliamentarians representing 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, meeting in Santa Maria/ SAL, Cape Verde, between 15-18 October 2002 for the Fifth Regional Conference of African Women…

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How Do You Talk To Youth About The Facts Of Life, How Do You Start The Conversation?

location_onNigeria

calendar_today11 March 2003

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, helped launch a booklet to guide communications between parents and youth on sensitive matters in order to save adolescents’ lives by avoiding problems such as HIV/AIDS.