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“Giving birth to another child is not in my plans anymore”: New UNFPA report finds sexual and reproductive health omitted from most national climate plans

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Pela Judith, 25, explains how an ongoing drought in Madagascar’s Grand Sud has impacted her family planning decisions. © UNFPA Madagascar/Hanta Andremanisa
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Portable ultrasounds give pregnant women a ray of hope amid crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Anita Bosco, 35, receives an ultrasound scan from UNFPA midwife Kavira Kamate at the Kanyaruchinya health centre in North Kivu, close to the Bujari camp for people displaced by ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu
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Five things you need to know about consent

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World Sexual Health Day 2024

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Beating the odds: Resilience, hope and safe births at a UNFPA mobile clinic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Midwife Fyfy Omoyi hands Ms. Bembeleza her newborn, who was delivered safely at the UNFPA mobile health clinic at the Bulengo displacement camp. The camp is currently sheltering more than 100,000 people who have fled brutal conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ©UNFPA DRC/Jonas Yunus
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The threads that bind: How bilum-weaving in Papua New Guinea tells stories from the lives of women and girls

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Florence Jaukae Kamel is a bilum weaver and entrepreneur. © UNFPA Papua New Guinea
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Six UNFPA programmes around the world ensuring “health for all” in a world of 8 billion

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The 2023 theme for World Health Day, 7 April, is “Health for all”. © WHO
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“I never thought I would be pregnant at this age”

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World Sexual Health Day 2022

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