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UN Commission Sets Out Plan to Make Life-saving Health Supplies More Accessible
26 September 2012
UNITED NATIONS, New York – A new plan and set of recommendations to improve the supply and access of life-saving health supplies was submitted today to the UN Secretary-General by the members of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children.
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Healthy Baby Girl Born in a Refugee Camp!
24 September 2012
To raise awareness of the urgent needs of pregnant women in emergencies, UNFPA is launching a social media campaign called Safe Birth, Even Here. The campaign, which starts today, will run on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
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Saving Lives by Preventing Unintended Pregnancies and HIV during Pregnancy
22 July 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bold new commitments have been made to deliver on the promise to end child and maternal death and improve health. The Preventing HIV and Unintended Pregnancies Strategic Framework supports one such commitment – to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keep their mothers alive.
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Innovative Partnership to Deliver Convenient Contraceptives to Some Three Million Women
12 July 2012
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Public and private partners today announced plans to collaborate to reach approximately three million women in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia from 2013-2016 with up to 12 million doses of an injectable contraceptive at affordable price levels.
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World Population Day Marked with Renewed Push to Expand Family Planning Access Around the Globe
11 July 2012
UNITED NATIONS, New York—Family planning is anchored on respect for human rights, women’s empowerment and social justice and equality, according to Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA.
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Asia-Pacific Countries Join Global Campaign for Universal Access to Reproductive Health and Family Planning
11 July 2012
BANGKOK—Today, on World Population Day, countries across Asia and the Pacific will highlight the need for universal access to sexual and reproductive health services, as leaders in London launch an unprecedented initiative to give 120 million more women access to voluntary family planning by 2020.
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UNFPA to Work with UK and Gates Foundation to Give 120 Million More Women Access to Family Planning by 2020
02 July 2012
UNITED NATIONS, New York—UNFPA is calling on governments around the world to commit more resources to the critical issue of voluntary family planning.
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Rio Consensus Vision, ‘The Future We Want’, Cements Central Role of Reproductive Health in Sustainability
22 June 2012
UNITED NATIONS, New York —The World’s Heads of State and Government adopted, ‘The Future We Want’, a common global vision that reaffirmed commitments their nations made in the Programme of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.
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Population Key to Sustainable Development, Says New UNFPA Report
21 June 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO — Countries need to promote sustainable patterns of production and consumption – which are the defining features of the green economy – but also address demographic change through human-rights based policies in order to achieve sustainability, a new UNFPA reports says.
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New Study Finds Little Progress in Meeting Demand for Contraception in the Developing World
19 June 2012
A new study by the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA finds that the number of women in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy but are not using modern contraception declined only slightly between 2008 and 2012, from 226 to 222 million.
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Policymakers Recommit to Unfinished Agenda of Landmark Cairo Population Conference
25 May 2012
ISTANBUL—Lawmakers from 110 countries reaffirmed today their support to the principles and goals of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, emphasizing their continued centrality to efforts to reduce poverty and safeguard people’s health and rights, including sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.
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Parliamentarians Confer in Türkiye on Population, Development
24 May 2012
<p>ISTANBUL —More than 400 delegates, including 200 parliamentarians, from more than 110 countries from around the world started a meeting in Istanbul today to renew their commitment to the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.</p>
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