Sexually Transmitted Infections
Some 340 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections, excluding HIV, occur each year. This technical publication outlines the main issues…
Clinical Management of Rape Survivors
Over the past five years, humanitarian agencies have been working to put in place systems to respond to sexual and gender-based violence, as well as…
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Saving Mothers’ Lives
More than half a million women die each year as a result of pregnancy-related complications. This brochure describes UNFPA's three-part strategy…
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Women and HIV/AIDS
This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse it cannot succeed unless women and…
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24 Tips for Culturally Sensitive Programming
This booklet, a companion to the publication Working from Within Â, colorfully presents 24 tips, one per page, for culturally sensitive programming,…
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…
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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…
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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…