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Explainer: No, contraceptives don’t cause abortions

Health workers provide contraceptives through mobile clinics in Syria. © UNFPA/Zein Khuzam
  • 11 August 2025
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Providing women the power of choice through contraceptive access in Lesotho

Village health worker 'Mautloanang Mokone provides women with refills for their contraceptives. © UNFPA Lesotho / Violet Maraisane
  • 25 September 2024
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Reproductive rights are human rights

Published on: 29/06/2022

Restricting access to abortion does not prevent abortion. It simply makes it more deadly.

Read UNFPA's statement on the global implications of new restrictions to access to abortion here.

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Ride-hailing app delivers contraceptives to users’ doorsteps

The SafeBoda ride hailing app can now be used to order essential reproductive health supplies. © SafeBoda
  • 17 July 2020
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In Burundi, sexual health education helps youth protect themselves, their futures

Young people outside a youth-friendly health centre in Kamenge, Bujumbura. © UNFPA/Chiara Frisone
  • 18 January 2019
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To secure a better future, teens in Sierra Leone look to family planning

Aminata Kabba became pregnant at 15. She says she wishes she had known about family planning. © MSSL
  • 10 July 2017
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Missing Girls - Family Planning in China

Published on: 28/04/2007

A new, less restrictive policy in Hainan Province, coupled with advocacy and incentives, is expected to result in a more balanced sex ratio among newborns in China.
 

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