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Heed Expert Advice of Women, Youth, in AIDS Response, UNFPA Urges World Leaders
10 June 2008
<p class="bodytext"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> – World leaders attending a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS here this week should pay more attention to women and youth, especially those living with HIV and AIDS, and seek their expert advice in responding to the epidemic. In addition, interventions addressing AIDS and sexual and reproductive health should be integrated in order to become mutually reinforcing, according to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Stronger Health Systems and Better Maternal Health Critical to African Development, Japan Summit Affirms
30 May 2008
<p> <strong>YOKOHAMA, Japan</strong> – Stronger health systems, improved maternal and child health, and effective prevention of AIDS and other infectious diseases are essential to African development, more than 40 heads of State agreed today.</p>
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Leaders at Japan-Africa Gathering Should Speed Action to End Maternal Death, Reduce Poverty in Africa, Says UNFPA
26 May 2008
<p> <strong>TOKYO</strong>—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has urged leaders gathering for the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) to commit to swifter action to end maternal death and promote women’s rights, to speed up poverty reduction in Africa.</p>
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After Chinese Earthquake, UNFPA Mobilizes Supplies to Help Pregnant Women Deliver Safely
21 May 2008
<p class="bodytext"> <strong>BANGKOK/NEW YORK</strong>—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is mobilizing life-saving reproductive health supplies to help China respond to the deadly earthquake in Sichuan Province.</p>
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Former Barbados Minister, Family Care International to Receive United Nations Population Award
21 May 2008
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The 2008 winners of the United Nations Population Award will receive their medals this week at an official ceremony at United Nations Headquarters.</p>
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$3 Million Requested by UNFPA to Help Women and Girls Displaced by Myanmar Cyclone
09 May 2008
<p class="bodytext"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is appealing for $3 million to address the urgent humanitarian concerns of cyclone-affected populations, particularly women and girls, in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady and Yangon regions.</p>
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Conference Calls for Major Investments in Health Services to Prevent 10 Million Maternal and Child Deaths
19 April 2008
<p> <strong>CAPE TOWN</strong> — A three-day conference on tracking global progress to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths has concluded today with a call for scaled-up investments in basic health services and human resources to reduce the preventable deaths of over 10 million children and women each year.</p>
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G8 Action Urged to Avert Six Million Mother and Child Deaths Every Year
18 April 2008
<p> <strong>New York/Cape Town</strong> — The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health has called on the Group of Eight (G-8) nations’ leaders to fulfil their previous commitments to global health and commit to new, long-term financing for essential interventions that could avert the deaths of over 6 million mothers, newborns and children every year. </p>
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New Film Series Takes on Culture of Silence on Violence Against Women
17 April 2008
<p class="bodytext"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, Geneva</strong> — This is an unfortunate anniversary. Fourteen years ago, in April 1994, news got out that ethnic violence in Kigali was spreading throughout Rwanda.</p>
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Critical Health Care Fails to Reach Most Women and Children in High-Mortality Countries
16 April 2008
<p> <strong>New York / Cape Town</strong> — Leading global health experts, policymakers and parliamentarians are convening in Cape Town from 17th to 19th April at the Countdown to 2015 conference to address the urgent need for accelerated progress to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths.</p>
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Fistula Surgery Camp Offers Treatment and Training
08 April 2008
<p> <strong>SYLHET, Bangladesh</strong> — Twenty-nine women suffering from obstetric fistula underwent repair surgery here last week during a three-day marathon training session that involved medical staff from four Asian countries.</p>
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New Report to Reveal Latest Trends in Health Coverage to Save Lives of Mothers, Babies and Children
03 April 2008
<p> <span class="bodytext"> <strong>New York</strong> -</span> Leading global health experts, policymakers and parliamentarians will gather in Cape Town, South Africa from 17 to 19 April 2008 for the <em>Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival</em> Conference and report launch.</p>
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