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WOMEN DELIVER CONFERENCE, 18-20 October: No Women Should Die Giving Life
15 October 2007
UNITED NATIONS, New York—The tragic fact that one woman still dies every single minute from complications of pregnancy and childbirth will be the focus of a global conference in London this week.
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Maternal Mortality Declining in Middle-income Countries; Women Still Die in Pregnancy and Childbirth in Low-income Countries
12 October 2007
<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>GENEVA/NEW YORK</strong> — The world’s maternal mortality ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is declining too slowly to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims to improve maternal health and prevent women from dying in pregnancy and childbirth.</p>
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Asian Countries Step up Commitment to Address Ageing
11 October 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>MACAO, China</strong>—Confronting the unprecedented ageing of their populations, many Asian governments are formulating plans to meet the economic, social and health needs of older people.</p>
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Women Deliver Conference to Feature United Nations Leaders
05 October 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> – The landmark <a href="http://www.womendeliver.org/">Women Deliver</a> conference will bring some of the United Nations’ most high-powered leaders to London in October to further the Millennium Development Goals of curbing preventable pregnancy-related deaths of mothers and newborns.</p>
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United Nations Health Sector Partners Launch Appeal to Meet Health Needs of Iraqis Displaced in Neighbouring Countries
18 September 2007
<p align="left"> <span class="bodytext"> <strong>GENEVA</strong> — Today, United Nations health sector partners, including UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), UNICEF, World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organization (WHO) appealed for $84.8 million to assist an estimated 2.2 million Iraqis who have fled the ongoing violence and instability in Iraq to neighbouring countries.</span> </p>
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World Health, Development Agencies Welcome International Health Partnership Launched Today in London
05 September 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>NEW YORK/LONDON—</strong>Several of the world’s leading development and health agencies have welcomed the International Health Partnership launched today in London as renewed hope of saving millions of lives in developing countries.</p>
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UNFPA Seeks Emergency Funding for Women, Girls in the Wake of the Peru Earthquake.
29 August 2007
NEW YORK/LIMA—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is seeking $850,000 in emergency funding to help up to 250,000 victims of the recent earthquake in Peru.
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Prevention is for Life: Action Required to Halt AIDS
22 August 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka</strong> — Countries need to make universal access to sexual and reproductive health, HIV prevention, treatment, care and support a top priority says Purnima Mane, Deputy Executive Director (Programme) of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Women Deliver: World Leaders Meet to Curb Needless Deaths During Pregnancy and Childbirth
13 August 2007
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> – A landmark global conference in London this October aims to halt the needless deaths of 10 million women and girls who die in each generation during pregnancy and childbirth, and four million newborn babies who die every year.</p>
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UNFPA, UNICEF Step Up Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
09 August 2007
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — A $44-million programme has been launched to reduce female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) by 40 per cent in 16 countries by 2015 and to end the harmful traditional practice within a generation.</p>
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Male Involvement in Maternal Health Critical to Saving Women's Lives, Say UN Leaders
10 July 2007
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Men should more vigorously participate as partners in maternal health in order to significantly reduce the number of women who die each day in childbirth, said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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New Effort to Save Lives of Mothers and Newborns in Bangladesh Gains Support from UK, EC and UN Agencies
11 June 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>DHAKA, Bangladesh</strong> — The United Kingdom, the European Commission (EC) and three United Nations agencies are assisting Bangladesh in a major new effort to save lives and improve the health and well-being of mothers and newborns.</p>
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