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Combating Tanzania's high child marriage rates

Students and teachers at the Jangwani Girls' Secondary School, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, listen to a presentation about girls' rights during the launch of a national campaign to end child marriage. Photo credit: RCO/Selemani Kitenge
  • 15 September 2014
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Fistula campaign in South Sudan seeks lasting solutions

Chief surgeon Said Ahmed presents a bouquet to Akon Kang Ngang, 76, after she received surgery to repair an obstetric fistula. She had been living with fistula for almost 60 years. Photo credit: UNFPA South Sudan/Denis Wani
  • 03 November 2014
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Resources

Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health

Resource date: 2007

Author: UNFPA. Family Care International

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Scenes from South Sudan's Independence Day, 9 July 2011

Published on: 23/07/2011

Following two decades of a civil war that cost the lives of more than 2.5 million people and displaced thousands more, this day offered South Sudanese the promise of a better and more peaceful way forward. As masses gathered in the scorching sun the next morning at the John Garang Mausoleum to listen to the declaration of independence, many broke down in tears.

Crisis in Darfur

Published on: 24/04/2007

Medical care, reproductive health commodities, and social support is provided by UNFPA to 700,000 internally displaced persons as well as the more than 1.8 million conflict-affected people in Darfur.
 
 

News

In Sudan, male partners critical in fight against FGM

FGM is not just a women's issue; men also have a role to play. A UNFPA-supported Y-Peer group in East Sudan advocates ending the practice. Photo credit: UNFPA Sudan
  • 02 September 2014
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News

Quadruplets born in rural DRC, with help of emergency obstetric programme

Quadruplets born at a UNFPA-supported hospital in Niania, DRC. Photo credit: UNFPA DRC
  • 15 August 2014
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News

From promise to action: Ending preventable maternal deaths in Kenya

Women await post-natal care at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana, one of the 15 counties where maternal death rates are highest. <i>Photo credit: UNFPA Kenya
  • 29 August 2014
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Media Advisory

Multi-million Dollar Partnership for Sahel's Development to be Reinforced by African Governments, UN, World Bank

18 September 2014

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Ugandan youth push for increased access to reproductive health services

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin speaks with youth about increasing access to sexual and reproductive health services. Photo credit: UNFPA Uganda
  • 05 August 2014
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