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After Earthquake, UNFPA Aims to Ensure Pregnant Women Can Deliver Safely
30 May 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>JAKARTA, Indonesia</strong> — A United Nations team is assessing the health needs of 100,000 Indonesian earthquake survivors, including emergency care for pregnant women and other reproductive health services.</p>
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Media Advisory: The 2006 High-level Meeting on AIDS: UNFPA to Highlight Increased Feminization of HIV/AIDS
24 May 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — As the world marks 25 years of AIDS, representatives of the international community will gather at the United Nations to take stock of global efforts to confront the pandemic.</p>
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UNFPA: Working to Turn Back the AIDS Clock
23 May 2006
<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The newly relaunched <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/aids_clock/">AIDS Clock</a>, an initiative of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has been counting the relentless toll of the epidemic since 1997.</p>
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New Haiti Census Shows Drastic Lack of Jobs, Education, Maternal Health Services
10 May 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti</strong> — The results of the first census held in Haiti in the past 24 years reveal that half of the country’s population is younger than 20 years old, unemployment is a staggering 33 per cent and school attendance rate is as low as 49 per cent.</p>
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World Needs Midwives More Than Ever to Keep More Women, Babies Alive, Say Global Health Actors on International Midwives Day
05 May 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>THE HAGUE/NEW YORK</strong> — Urgent support to midwives, especially in developing countries, would save the lives of 5 million women and prevent 80 million illnesses from pregnancy or childbirth by 2015, say the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, on the International Day of the Midwife, 5 May.</p>
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European Commission Contributes € 15 million for Reproductive Health Supplies in 17 Developing Countries Affected by Conflict
02 May 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The European Commission has contributed € 14.87 million to help UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, provide equipment and supplies for obstetric and maternal health in 17 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries in conflict or post-conflict situations.</p>
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Bangladeshi Doctor, Haitian Family Planning Provider, Win 2006 United Nations Population Award
13 April 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — A veteran family planning doctor and programme manager, Dr. Halida Hanum Akhter, of Bangladesh, and Haiti’s Foundation for Reproductive Health and Family Education (FOSREF) have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.</p>
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Six Months After Pakistan Earthquake, UNFPA Continues Providing Vital Health Services to Communities
07 April 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan</strong> — Six months after the devastating 8 October 2005 earthquake that ripped through northern Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continues to provide much-needed health assistance to the earthquake victims, especially women and adolescent girls.</p>
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Decline in Family Planning Funding Must Be Reversed, Says UNFPA
03 April 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — More funding for international family planning is needed urgently to enable 200 million women in developing countries to exercise their human right to determine the size of their families.</p>
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First UNFPA Office to Serve Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Opens in Oman
30 March 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>MUSCAT, Oman</strong> — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has set up its first subregional office to serve countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.</p>
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UNFPA Assists Government in First Nigerian Census in 15 Years
28 March 2006
<p align="left">UNITED NATIONS, New York — Nigeria's first census in 15 years ended late last night following a two-day extension to ensure universal coverage of the head count in the total tally.</p>
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Canada Makes New Contribution to Fight Sexual Violence in Democratic Republic of the Congo
10 March 2006
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The Government of Canada will contribute Can$15 million (US$13.2 million) to support efforts by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and partners to fight sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).</p>
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