HIV Transmission Through Breastfeeding
A review of available evidence describes briefly the benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and infants in general. Transmission by breastfeeding is…
Publication
South Asia Conference for the Prevention and Treatment of Obstetric Fistula
This conference on obstetric fistula, the first of its kind in South Asia, sparked important dialogue and action on the issue and is an indispensable…
Annual Report
UNFPA Annual Report 2002
In this annual report, we draw attention to the many different ways in which UNFPA is working to reduce poverty by meeting reproductive health needs…
Financial Resource Flows For Population Activities 2003
The goals of the Millennium Declaration and the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) gender equality and universal…
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…
Publication
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…