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Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

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What we do

Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

Donate

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What we do

Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

Donate

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What we do

Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

Donate

Go back

What we do

Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

Donate

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Zekia is advocating against female genital mutilation among her community and at school in the Dalocha district, in Ethiopia’s Central region. © UNFPA Ethiopia/MOPIX Production

Survivors in Kenya say the practice must stop with their daughters

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Supporting survivors of sexual assault in Ethiopia, and working to stop violence before it starts

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Bule Hora teaching hospital’s gender-based violence health facility offers survivors a safe space where they can access medical attention, psychosocial support and sexual and reproductive health care. © Fasil Zenebe / UNFPA Ethiopia

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Waving goodbye to 2023. A year in which young designers' first fashion collections took to the catwalk in Accra. © UNFPA Ghana/Sibs Consult/Gideon Adonteng

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Japan continues to prioritize the most vulnerable women and girls in humanitarian settings

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Setyelem, 29, suffered from the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. She received care thanks to UNFPA, with funding from the Government of Japan. © UNFPA Ethiopia

Breaking with tradition in Malawi: Communities band together to protect girls’ rights

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Mlirima Development Network members have been trained in gender equality and rights by UNFPA.

“Your story holds power”: UNFPA provides HIV testing for survivors of violence in Namibia

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Cabo Delgado: Low tides and high stakes

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“It's about our health and our future”: Ensuring sexual and reproductive health support in northern Mozambique

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Margarida Agida and Selma Severino, maternal and child health nurses from the Lichinga health centre in Niassa, Mozambique, show the range of family planning methods they offer to a community caught up in violent attacks.

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