Culturally sensitive approaches

Cultures adapt to change, and they also contribute to it. Credit: Mani Babar

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Using Social Media to Empower Madagascar’s Youth

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<p>Manantsoa Ratsarazaka (right) founded a groundbreaking project to educate and encourage young people in Madagascar to discuss reproductive health issues and seek advice, using the ever growing power of social media. <i>Photo &copy; Lovaniaina Tsiandatse/UNFPA</i> </p>
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UNFPA Marks 1,000-Day Milestone to the MDG 2015 Target Date

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UNFPA Launches Advocacy Platform for Post-2015 Development Framework

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‘School for Husbands’ Encourages Nigerien Men to Improve the Health of Their Families

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Pupils of School for Husbands' become guides and role models within their own family and among others in the community.
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Philippines: Maternal Mortality Rates Not Making Sufficient Progress to Meet MDGs

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Filipino women in undeveloped rural areas of the Philippines are far more likely to die from childbearing than their urban counterparts.
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Teenage Pregnancy is Way of Life in Remote Laotian Villages

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<p>At 16, Tod is expecting her second child.&nbsp;With limited options for schooling, adolscents in some remote villages in southern Laos routinely marry and start the hard work of raising families by age 14 or 15. <i>Photo&copy;UNFPA AsiaPacific</i> </p>
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Preventing Teenage Pregnancy in Ecuador

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Maria Victoria Urquizo(15) was raped by a co-worker when she was 14 years old. Now she lives with her baby girl at her brother's house. Photo: Trygve Olfarnes/UNFPA.
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Malagasy Women Wounded by Child Marriage and its Aftermath

calendar_today10 October 2012

<p>Alphonsine has lived for nearly 20 years with obstetric fistula and resulting incontinence.&nbsp; She underwent a surgical repair, but needs to undergo another.&nbsp; Photo: UNFPA Madagascar</p>
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Ugandan Communities Scrutinize a Violent – Sometimes Deadly – Rite of Passage

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These schoolchildren in the Moroto district, where FGM/C is still prevalent, were shown a video that explains the negative consequences of the practice. In the past, this information was hidden from them
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