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Contraceptive stocks dwindle in Kenya, affecting most vulnerable women

calendar_today11 September 2025

Health workers in Kenya’s rural Narok county have worked for years to build outreach and supply systems to empower women to access contraception. But now, stocks are running out. © UNFPA/Rebecca Zerzan
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Shudu Reacts: The Real Fertility Crisis

calendar_today24 September 2025

Shudu Reacts: The Real Fertility Crisis

Shudu Reacts: The Real Fertility Crisis

Should women have more children?

Is the world facing a birth rate crisis?

Let Shudufhadzo Musida, UNFPA Global Champion for Women and Girls, tell you the facts as she reacts to real comments about the real fertility crisis.

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“I don't want to be surprised by another pregnancy”: Contraceptive options offer young people in Côte d’Ivoire a fairer future

calendar_today23 September 2025

In Côte d’Ivoire’s central Bouaké Department, Thérèse Kouadio had already experienced two early pregnancies close together before turning 18.
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Lack of reproductive rights and choices undermines a generation of young people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

calendar_today07 July 2025

Ombeni Mburano, who is seven months pregnant with her sixth child, stands in front of the ruins of a bomb-hit makeshift shelter in an informal displacement site west of Goma. © UNFPA DRC / Jonas Yunus
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The Future of Family Planning Convening Keynote Address by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem

calendar_today13 March 2025

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Tanzanian women highlight the path from bodily autonomy to sustainable development

calendar_today02 December 2024

Nurse Salma Mgeni places her arm around Safia Yahya after giving her a contraceptive implant at the Fuoni Health Facility in Zanzibar. For them, it is clear that family planning plays an important role in helping women, families and communities thrive. © UNFPA Tanzania/Karlien Truyens
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Mass displacement of pregnant women requires mobilization of maternal health services in Lebanon, Syria

calendar_today30 October 2024

Soumaia was displaced from Lebanon while five months pregnant. She experienced a stillbirth after finding shelter in Syria. © UNFPA Syria/Alaa Ghorra
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Press release

Governments and Philanthropies Commit Approximately US$350 Million, Giving Urgent Boost to Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health Supplies and Services Worldwide

calendar_today24 September 2024

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Empowering indigenous women in Venezuela to become mothers by choice, not chance

calendar_today08 August 2024

Omaira Opikuko speaks with a nurse before obtaining an intrauterine device. © UNFPA Venezuela
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