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Media Advisory - United Nations Population Award: Ceremony to Honour American, Iranian and Two Institutions for Outstanding Population Work
06 June 2007
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The 2007 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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Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Key to Global Health Security, UNFPA Head Tells World Health Assembly
15 May 2007
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, Geneva</strong> — Governments have to increase investment in sexual and reproductive health to strengthen health systems and ensure international health security.</p>
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Allan Rosenfield, Hossein Afzali and Two Organizations Share 2007 United Nations Population Award
02 May 2007
<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Columbia University’s Allan Rosenfield, Iran’s Hossein Malek Afzali and two institutions have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.</p>
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Celebrity Gathering Spotlights 'End Fistula' Campaign
26 April 2007
<p> <strong>BRUSSELS, Belgium</strong>—Singer and actress Natalie Imbruglia, television personality Goedele Liekens, high-level politicians and individuals from the Belgian fashion and media scene gathered this evening to rally support for the Campaign to End Fistula, a global effort to address a devastating injury of childbearing that affects more than 2 million women and girls.</p>
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Women's Well-being Key to Afghanistan's Future, UNFPA Leader Stresses
25 April 2007
<p> <strong>KABUL, Afghanistan</strong> — “No nation can be developed when women die while giving birth,” Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, declared today in an appeal for increased international support for the well-being of Afghanistan’s women.</p>
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The Prime Minister of Tanzania Calls on Regional Leaders to Increase Health Spending to 15 Per Cent of National Budgets and to Strive for Achieving Health MDGs
17 April 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania</strong> — More than 300 delegates gathered at the first-ever assembly of <a href="http://www.who.int/pmnch/en/" target="_blanl">The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health</a>.</p>
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Women Fall Victims as Family Planning Resources Dwindle, Warns UNFPA
10 April 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The drastic decline in funding for family planning has created victims in the developing parts of the world, said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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UNFPA Sends Emergency Supplies to Solomon Islands to Enable Pregnant Women to Deliver Safely
09 April 2007
<p> <strong>SUVA, Fiji</strong> — To ensure that expectant mothers affected by last week’s earthquake and tsunami can deliver their babies in a safe and clean environment, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has sent emergency reproductive health kits and equipment to the Solomon Islands.</p>
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Malawi Among the First African Countries to Launch Road Map to Prevent Women from Dying While Giving Life
30 March 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>LILONGWE, Milawi</strong> — The Malawi Government today launched a <em>Road Map</em> to combat maternal and infant death, with the theme, <em>“Maternal Death is Preventable; No More Silence, Act Now!”</em> </p>
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UNFPA, UNAIDS Welcome Purnima Mane as New UNFPA Deputy Executive Director
19 March 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York/Geneva</strong> — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) are delighted with the appointment of Ms. Purnima Mane as the new Deputy Executive Director (Programme) of UNFPA.</p>
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New Population Projections Underline Urgency of Family Planning Needs in Developing Nations
13 March 2007
<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — New world population projections for the year 2050 by the United Nations are yet another wake-up call to the urgency of giving couples the means to exercise their human right to freely determine the sizes of their families, said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>
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Brazil Launches Plan to Counter Feminization of HIV
07 March 2007
<p align="left"> <strong>BRASILIA, Brazil</strong> — The Brazilian Government, UNFPA, UNIFEM, UNICEF and other partners will launch a pioneering anti-HIV plan today, as part of the International Women's Day commemorations in Brazil.</p>
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