News

Alarming shortage of health personnel in conflict-affected Nigeria

calendar_today29 August 2017

Midwife Hauwa Lassa (third from left) shows colleagues how to use UNFPA-supplied equipment to safely deliver babies. © Anne Wittenberg/UNFPA
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News

Mobile clinics deliver essential care to women and girls in remote Haiti

calendar_today15 August 2017

Yveka, 17, visits a midwife during the mobile clinic. © UNFPA
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News

Tens of thousands of girls reached through Mozambique empowerment programme

calendar_today09 August 2017

Edma teaches girls the skills and knowledge they need to protect themselves, stay in school and demand their rights. © UNFPA/Helene Christensen
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News

Contraceptives reach rural women through pioneering system

calendar_today31 July 2017

Midwife Nan Win Phyu at the Nam Khoke Rural Health Centre uses a family planning wheel to explain contraceptive options. © UNFPA Myanmar/Si Thu Soe Moe
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To secure a better future, teens in Sierra Leone look to family planning

calendar_today10 July 2017

Aminata Kabba became pregnant at 15. She says she wishes she had known about family planning. © MSSL
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H6 Partnership Annual Report 2016

Publisher

UNFPA on behalf of H6

Publication date

Jun 2017

Number of pages

125

Annual Report

H6 Partnership Annual Report 2016

Harnessing the collective strengths of the UN system to improve the health of women, children and adolescents everywhere

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News

Study shows meeting adolescents’ health needs would yield tenfold return

calendar_today20 April 2017

Girls from the Safeguard Young People programme in Malawi, which provides sexual and reproductive health information, helps young people access health services, and offers leadership training. © UNFPA Malawi/Hope Ngwira
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News

Young people call for education, health care, rights – and politicians are listening

calendar_today19 May 2017

Young people face myriad barriers to realizing their human rights, including poor access to education and health care. And girls are especially vulnerable, facing discrimination, violence and high rates of early pregnancy. © UNFPA
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In times of crisis, the hygiene and health needs of women and girls are often overlooked. This has been true in the crisis in Yemen, where mass displacements have disrupted normal life for countless women and girls. In response, UNFPA is distributing dignity kits, which contain sanitary napkins, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, blankets, headscarves, flashlights and other essential items.

News

Sexuality education offers life-saving lessons to Zambia’s young people

calendar_today13 April 2017

Education is helping young people combat Zambia's high rates of teen pregnancy and HIV. © UNFPA Zambia/Helene Christensen
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