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To secure a better future, teens in Sierra Leone look to family planning

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Aminata Kabba became pregnant at 15. She says she wishes she had known about family planning. © MSSL
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One year after Ebola’s end, Sierra Leone's midwives help mend health system

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Midwifery students listen to a fetal heartbeat. A new generation of midwives will shore up reproductive health care in Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone. © Olivia Acland, United Nations
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In Sierra Leone, family planning for a better future

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In Sierra Leone, family planning for a better future

In Sierra Leone, family planning for a better future

In Sierra Leone, teenage pregnancies are commonplace, and school completion rates are unacceptably low. But family planning programmes, supported by UNFPA, are empowering people to choose if and when to have children, and how many children to have. By enabling young people to stay in school and find productive employment, family planning is helping Sierra Leoneans to pursue better futures for themselves and their families. 

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Students perform their award-winning poem, "The Life that is Worthy." Their message makes them ambassadors of sustainable development, said leaders at the 2016 Music, Dance and Drama Festival.
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Now Ebola-free, Liberia’s maternal health needs take centre stage

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A woman and her baby rest at a UNFPA-supported health facility in Liberia. © UNFPA Liberia
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Standing guard against Ebola’s return in Mali

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Fanta Coulibaly screens travelers at the Bamako-Senou International Airport. © UNFPA Mali
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Contact tracers are trained to use the CommCare app in Ratoma. © UNFPA Guinea
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Liberia's Ebola outbreak leaves pregnant women stranded

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Two midwives in protective gear supplied by UNFPA hand over a newborn to her mother at the Star of the Sea Clinic in West Point, Monrovia. Photo credit: UNFPA Liberia
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A woman is in labour at her home in Gbarnga, Liberia, under the care of a traditional birth attendant. The Ebola outbreak has left a number of many health facilities inaccessible, forcing many pregnant women to deliver at home. Photo credit: UNFPA Liberia/Calixte Hessou
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Fear of health workers fuels Ebola crisis in Guinea

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A health official in Guinea, where UNFPA assisting in the Ebola response. Photo credit: UNFPA Guinea
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