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Reproductive Health and Rights Are Crucial to Women’s Advancement, New Booklet Shows
03 July 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - Reproductive health and rights are lifetime concerns that are essential to women’s empowerment and gender equality. A new publication from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) explains why.</p>
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UNFPA Airlifts Emergency Supplies for Eritrea; Board Endorses Rapid-Response Fund
21 June 2000
United Nations, New York - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is airlifting about 10 metric tons of life-saving emergency safe motherhood and reproductive health supplies to help Eritreans internally displaced by the recent fighting between their country and Ethiopia.
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UNFPA Executive Director Urges Beijing+5 Session to Agree on Women’s Right to Health and Protection from Violence
12 June 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> -- Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on Friday urged the General Assembly's “Beijing+5” special session to reach agreement on women’s right to health and their right to protection from violence.</p>
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UNFPA Organizes Panel Discussion on Best Practices in Promoting Gender Equality; Also Hosts Press Conference about Opinion Poll on U.S. Women's Interest in Global Issues
06 June 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - Recent experience confirms that improving women's access to health care results in a very definite, measurable improvement in women's well-being, Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said today.</p>
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UN Population Fund Hails Gates Foundation’s $57 Million Grant to Protect African Youth against HIV/AIDS
04 April 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - A $57 million grant from the <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a> will tremendously strengthen efforts to protect young people in four African countries against HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced today.</p>
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Egyptian Health Minister and Mexican Family Planning Foundation Win United Nations Population Award
20 March 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - Ismail Awadallah Sallam, the Minister of Health and Population of Egypt, and a Mexican family planning organization, Fundacion Mexicana para la Planificacion Familiar (MEXFAM), will share the 2000 United Nations Population Award.</p>
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Population Fund Sends Emergency Safe Motherhood Supplies for Zimbabwe Cyclone Victims
14 March 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is airlifting more than six tonnes of life-saving emergency safe motherhood and reproductive health supplies to Zimbabwe to help victims of Cyclone Eline.</p>
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New Publication Highlights Support by UN Population Fund for Goals of Beijing Women's Conference
08 March 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is actively backing efforts to carry out the agenda of the 1995 Beijing women's conference, a new UNFPA publication shows.</p>
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Population Fund Sends Emergency Delivery Kits to Mozambique Flood Victims
02 March 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - As part of the United Nations system's urgent humanitarian response to the floods devastating Mozambique, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has sent emergency reproductive health supplies, such as life-saving, clean baby delivery kits, and equipment for obstetric complications, that will serve a population of 500,000 people for three months.</p>
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Miss Universe, Mpule Kwelagobe, Appointed UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for Botswana
08 February 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today appointed Miss Universe, Mpule Kwelagobe, its Goodwill Ambassador for Botswana.</p>
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UN Population Fund Provides Modern Laundry to Kosovo Maternity Hospital
01 February 2000
<p class="bodytext"> <b>Pristina, Kosovo</b> - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will today hand over a fully equipped laundry department to the maternity clinic at Pristina University Hospital.</p>
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Kunio Waki Named Deputy Executive Director of UN Population Fund
14 January 2000
<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - The Secretary-General of the United Nations today announced the appointment of Kunio Waki of Japan as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), effective 1 February 2000.</p>
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