Events

22nd International AIDS Conference

calendar_today23 July - 27 July 2018

location_onAmsterdam, the Netherlands

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Family planning liberating for women in rural Ethiopia

calendar_today16 July 2018

Mrs. Belay with her husband, Priest Leul Hunegnaw, in front of their barn. She says contraception has had a liberating effect. © UNFPA Ethiopia
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Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate

calendar_today10 July 2018

Family health houses are helping midwives provide reproductive health care in far-flung parts of Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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After ‘Volcano of Fire’ eruption, women and girls face heightened risks

calendar_today05 July 2018

Women and girls require security, health care and other services in the aftermath of the disaster. © UNFPA Guatemala/Carlos Sebastián
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Health facilities, safe spaces reinforced as monsoon rains threaten Rohingya refugees

calendar_today02 July 2018

As the monsoon season hits Cox's Bazar, refugees at Kutapalong refugee camp and elsewhere fear they are vulnerable to landslides. © UNHCR/Adam Dean
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Sexual and reproductive health needs immense among Rohingya refugees

calendar_today29 June 2018

Health workers rush to assist Salima Khatum at the Nayapara refugee camp maternity centre. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Allison Joyce
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Sir Prince Ramsey, Guttmacher Institute and Save a Child’s Heart recognized with UN Population Award

calendar_today26 June 2018

Martha Pobee, Ghana's Permanent Representative and Chair of the Committee for the United Nations Population Award, together with United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed and UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, who serves as the Award Committee's Secretary, at the 2018 UN Population Awards. © UNFPA/ Usenabasi Esiet
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Midwife escapes death after being denied maternal health care

calendar_today25 June 2018

Najat suffered a traumatic birth injury, and nearly died, after her in-laws refused to take her to a hospital during labour. © National Midwives Association/UNFPA
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Breaking taboos around sexual and reproductive health in rural Georgia

calendar_today21 June 2018

Young people from the Kakheti region of Georgia participate in peer education training on gender equality and reproductive health and rights. © UNFPA Georgia
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Fistula camp helps women and girls in Sierra Leone regain their dignity

calendar_today12 June 2018

Women and girls celebrating after their successful fistula repair surgeries at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Freetown © UNFPA Sierra Leone 2018/Angelique Reid
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