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Our goal is ending unmet need for family planning, preventable maternal death, and gender-based violence and harmful practices including child marriage and female genital mutilation by 2030.

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UNFPA is on the ground before, during and after crises, working closely with partners to ensure sexual and reproductive health needs are not overlooked.

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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

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

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

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

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
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Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

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Yemen

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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Ethiopia
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Ukraine
Yemen

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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Ethiopia
Haiti
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Yemen

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
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Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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Ethiopia
Haiti
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Ukraine
Yemen

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What we do ENDING UNMET NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

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What we do ENDING MATERNAL MORTALITY

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

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What we do ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND HARMFUL PRACTICES

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

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What we do RESPONDING TO POPULATION MATTERS

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

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What we do 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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“We say: Yes, you can”: Facing adversity and protecting women in the Peruvian jungle

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Dafne Aquino travels long distances in a small boat to reach the most remote communities of indigenous women in the Peruvian Amazon. Credit: UNFPA Peru / Polo Santos

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Four ways to build positive relationships and achieve good sexual health

calendar_today04 September 2024

Married couple Jahangir and Shirin say that since attending UNFPA-supported “Couple Meetings”, their marriage has never been better. © UNFPA Bangladesh

“A race against time”: Djamila’s journey to hospital by canoe in flood-ravaged Cameroon

calendar_today11 September 2024

A pregnant woman is stranded by her house amid recent flooding in Cameroon’s Far North region. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon / Samuel Sawalda

As Russian air strikes escalate against Ukraine, a hospital in Kyiv struggles to care for pregnant women and newborns

calendar_today27 August 2024

The Kyiv Regional Perinatal Centre, supported by UNFPA, is a critical maternity and newborn health facility in the city. Credit UNFPA Ukraine/ Isaac Hurskin

Drought emergency in Zambia: Child marriage, HIV and hunger on the rise for women and girls

calendar_today03 July 2024

In Zambia’s drought-hit Southern, Western, Central and Lusaka Provinces, acute malnutrition is high among pregnant and breastfeeding women and risks are rising of gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse. © UNFPA Zambia/Julien Adam

In Georgia, an LGBTQIA+ advocate making HIV prevention and health care accessible for all

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As chairperson of the UNFPA-supported LGBTQIA+ community organization Temida, Beka Gabadadze is dedicated to making health care equal and accessible for everyone. © UNDP/Nino Zedginidze

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“We say: Yes, you can”: Facing adversity and protecting women in the Peruvian jungle

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Four ways to build positive relationships and achieve good sexual health

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As Russian air strikes escalate against Ukraine, a hospital in Kyiv struggles to care for pregnant women and newborns

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10 myths – and truths – about comprehensive sexuality education

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