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Rebuilding Reproductive Health Services Six Months After Earthquake
12 July 2010
<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE — Six months after the 7.0 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 ans, an estimated 1.5 million people are still living in temporary camps.</p>
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Everyone Counts: Quality Data Essential to Improving People’s Lives, Says UNFPA
09 July 2010
UNITED NATIONS — Reliable information is essential for governments to formulate policies that would meet people’s needs and improve their lives, according to Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA.
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Efforts to Boost Reproductive Health of Women, Girls, Falling Short, Says New MDG Review
23 June 2010
<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York—UNFPA welcomes the findings of a new report by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.</p>
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Governments, Donors and Agencies Share ‘Delivering as One’ Experiences
17 June 2010
<p>HANOI, Viet Nam — The ‘Delivering as One’ approach was endorsed by donors, country delegations and agencies at the conclusion of a three-day conference here.</p>
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UNFPA and CARE Announce Partnership to Improve Maternal Health Globally
07 June 2010
<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.—Leaders from UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, and CARE International announced today at the Women Deliver Conference an agreement to enhance collaboration on maternal health programs in more than 25 countries.</p>
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Maternal Health Conference Examines Progress, Challenges; Pushes Donors Towards $12 Billion Funding Increase
07 June 2010
<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.—The world’s largest conference on women’s health and empowerment in more than a decade opened today, with a call to increase funding commitments for maternal, reproductive, and newborn health by $12 billion each year.</p>
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Global Health Leaders Issue Call to Action to Increase Number of Midwives in Developing World
07 June 2010
<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.—Global health leaders at Women Deliver, the world’s largest maternal health conference, have called on the G-8 and G-20 to dramatically increase investments in midwifery services in developing countries.</p>
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H.R.H. The Crown Princess of Denmark Becomes Patron of UNFPA to Support Women’s Health
02 June 2010
<p>COPENHAGEN — H.R.H. Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has become Patron of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to support the agency’s work to promote maternal health and safer motherhood in more than 150 developing nations.</p>
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President Kabila Commits to Ensuring an AIDS-Free Generation in DR Congo
10 May 2010
<p>KINSHASA—President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has pledged to promote the emergence an AIDS-Free Generation, to ensure safer motherhood and to eliminate mother-child-transmission of HIV in his country.</p>
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UN Secretary-General Launches Global Effort on Women’s Health
14 April 2010
<p>UNITED NATIONS — With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is announcing the development of a Joint Action Plan for accelerating progress on maternal and newborn health.</p> <p> </p>
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Financial Crisis Should not Hinder Efforts to Improve Health, Reduce Poverty, says UNFPA
12 April 2010
<p>UNITED NATIONS — The global financial crisis should not be allowed to prevent further investments in health and human well-being, said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA. The lack of such social investment, she warned, will be most acutely felt in the poorest countries, and will most severely impact those who are socially and economically the most underprivileged—particularly poor women and girls.</p>
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Innovative Design Could Transform Urban Planning in Developing Countries
22 March 2010
<p>UNITED NATIONS — A new vision of urban planning that will positively transform the way cities grow across the developing world in the 21st Century was presented in a study issued today.</p>
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