Road to Global Reproductive Health
This publication charts the development of international co-operation on reproductive health through the UN system and outlines the language and…
Counting the People: Constraining Census Costs and Assessing Alternative Approaches
The papers in this report are based on an edited selection of presentations made at two meetings on population censuses. The first was the UNFPA/…
Impact of HIV/AIDS
Globally, the are about 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS and no major region of the world escapes the pandemic?s invasive presence. However, by…
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Maternal Mortality Update 2002
Every minute a woman dies from lack of life-saving emergency obstetric care. Addressing this need is the centrepiece of UNFPA's efforts to make…
Rapid Needs Assessment Tool for Condom Programming
This document was developed in collaboration with the Population Council to design and test a rapid needs assessment and data-gathering tool to…
Trafficking in Women, Girls and Boys
Trafficking in persons, their transportation and sale for labour of any kind, whether within or outside national boundaries, is a modern form of…
Communication for Development
This new publication summarizes discussions from the Eighth Roundtable on Communication for Development Roundtable (Managua, 2001) on strategies to…
Global Population and Water
In the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Governments were committed to achieving the internationally agreed…
Making Safe Motherhood a Reality in West Africa
For too long, efforts to reduce maternal mortality stalled, in part because the facts underlying the problem --and the best strategies to address it…
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Population, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
This publication highlights the importance of the ICPD Programme of Action, the discussions and subsequent experience and agreements as we mobilize…
Second Meeting of the Working Group for the Prevention and Treatment of Obstetric Fistula
UNFPA leads a coalition of organizations committed to the prevention and treatment of fistula, an isolating disability that results from unrelieved…
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), arising from the Millennium Summit in September 2000, are the overarching development objectives of the…