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Stronger Leadership Needed to Conquer AIDS, Says UNFPA Leader
02 June 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — With efforts to prevent HIV brutally insufficient, brave and committed leadership is urgently needed to boost HIV prevention in the AIDS programmes of nations around the world, according to Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Healing Tsunami's Mental Wounds: UNFPA Opens Counselling Centres in Aceh
02 June 2005
<p> <strong>JAKARTA, Indonesia —</strong> Four community-based psychosocial support centres opened last month to assist traumatized tsunami survivors and victims of violence in hard-hit sections of Aceh province.</p>
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MEDIA ADVISORY: World Reviews Achievements and Problems in Counquering HIV/AIDS, Four Years After UN Special Session on the Pandemic
26 May 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—In June 2001, the United Nations General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) recognized HIV/AIDS as the single greatest threat to the well-being of future generations.</p>
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Africa's Lawmakers Should Do More To Save Continent From Deaths from AIDS, Disease and Poverty, Appeals UNFPA's Thoraya Obaid
18 May 2005
<p> <strong>N’DJAMENA, Chad</strong>—Speakers and leaders of African parliaments should commit more resources to stop millions of Africa’s people from dying of HIV/AIDS, poverty and disease by implementing live-saving population and reproductive health programmes, says an appeal today by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Local Authorities Have an Important Role in Empowering Young in the Arab Region, Says Ms. Obaid
17 May 2005
<p> <strong>DUBAI —</strong> Young people, who make up the majority of Arab population, represent a great opportunity and an important wealth of new energy that local and national authorities must invest in, said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, an Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Integrate Universal Access to Reproductive Health into World Development Strategies, Strengthen Links Between HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health, UN Members Stress
14 April 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—Members of the United Nations have emphasized the need to integrate the goal of universal access to reproductive health by 2015 in strategies to attain the world’s development goals.</p>
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Better-funded, More Equitable Health Care Could Save Millions of Women and Children, Experts Say
11 April 2005
<p> <strong>NEW DELHI</strong>—The lives of 7 million women, newborns and children could be saved each year if health programmes were refocused to overcome inequality and scaled up to provide wider access to proven, cost-effective measures, experts meeting here agreed on Saturday.</p>
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UNFPA Urges Adversaries to Respect Human Rights in Nepal
05 April 2005
<p> <strong>NEW YORK —</strong> UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, called today on all parties to the conflict in Nepal to facilitate development and humanitarian assistance, and respect human rights.</p>
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New Zealand Increases its Support to UNFPA
05 April 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York —</strong> The Government of New Zealand has decided to increase its contribution to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, by NZ$1 million for 2005.</p>
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Donor Countries Should Keep Promises and Create World Free From Fear, Free From Want, Says UNFPA's Thoraya Obaid
04 April 2005
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—Donor countries should honour their commitment to fund population and reproductive health programmes in order to reduce poverty and achieve the <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/icpd/mdgs.htm">Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)</a>, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has said today.</p>
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UNFPA Sends Reproductive Health and Hygiene Supplies to Indonesian Islands Hit by Latest Earthquake
31 March 2005
<p> <strong>JAKARTA, Indonesia</strong>—Responding to the second strong earthquake to rock Indonesia in three months, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has sent supplies to help ensure the health and hygiene of displaced people, particularly pregnant women.</p>
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UNFPA Gears Up For First Census in Post-Civil War Sudan
31 March 2005
<p> <strong>KHARTOUM</strong>—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has started planning for a comprehensive population census in Sudan – that country’s first in more than 20 years.</p>
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