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'Chasing the Dream' Youth Photo Exhibit Opens in New York
12 August 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—Their stories are as poignant as they are inspiring.</p>
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Mixed Progress for Thai Women in Meeting Development Goals, UN Finds
12 July 2005
<p> <strong>BANGKOK, Thailand</strong>—Women in Thailand enjoy better reproductive health than 10 years ago, thanks to policies recognizing the links between health and poverty alleviation.</p>
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World Population Day 2005
11 July 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—Six decades after the United Nations founders proclaimed their commitment to peace, human rights and the equality of men and women, “it is clearer than ever before that human rights must be at the center of efforts to reduce poverty, discrimination and conflict,” said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Asian AIDS Conference Stresses Need to Focus on Most Vulnerable
05 July 2005
<p> <strong>KOBE, Japan</strong>—Large-scale HIV-prevention efforts linked to treatment could save 6 million Asians from infection in the next five years, participants at a regional AIDS conference were told this week.</p>
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UNFPA Reaffirms Advantages of Investing in Reproductive Health
29 June 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>— If modern contraceptive services were available to all 201 million women with unmet need in the developing world, 1.5 million women and children would be saved each year, and the number of unplanned births would be reduced by 72 per cent, according to a new publication by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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New Agreement to Boost Spanish-UNFPA Cooperation
28 June 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The Government of Spain and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today signed a new agreement that formally acknowledges the "growing importance" and "new challenges" inherent in key population issues, such as migration, aging and HIV/AIDS.</p>
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MEDIA ADVISORY: High Level Officials to Examine Impact of Better Health on Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
28 June 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>— How can better public health, particularly reproductive health, help end maternal death and the spread of HIV/AIDS, and eradicate extreme poverty by 2015?</p>
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Six Months After the Tsunami: UNFPA Helps Restore Reproductive Health Capacity and Promotes Women's Rights
24 June 2005
<p> <strong>BANGKOK, Thailand</strong>— Re-establishing quality reproductive health services is a top priority for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, six months after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.</p>
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WORLD REFUGEE DAY: Celebrating 10 Years Of Reproductive Health Care For Refugees
20 June 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Hajja was four months pregnant when she and her family were driven from their home by fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan.</p>
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Preventing the Spread of HIV in Post-Conflict Areas of West Africa
10 June 2005
<p> <strong>FREETOWN, Sierra Leone</strong> — A three-year project to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among refugees, displaced populations and their host communities in the post-conflict border areas of Guinea, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone was launched here today.</p>
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Far Too Many Women Risking Death to Give Life, UNFPA Leader Says, As UN Unveils Progress Report on Development Goals
09 June 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—A world in which a woman risks death each minute in order to bring new life must be transformed, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, said today.</p>
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Demographer, Mercedes Concepcion, of the Philippines, and Guatemala's Largest Private Family Planning Provider, Win 2005 United Nations Population Award
08 June 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—A leading demographer, Mercedes Concepcion, of the Philippines, and Guatemala’s largest private family planning provider, Asociación Pro-Bienestar de la Familia de Guatemala (APROFAM ONG), have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.</p>
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