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Sahel project helps women raise themselves, their communities from poverty

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Ms. Brema trains women in her village to become electricians. © Vincent Tremeau/Banque mondiale

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With new World Bank funding, SWEDD 2 to expand to Cameroon, Republic of Guinea

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SWEDD 2 will continue to support efforts to keep girls in school in Sahel countries like Mali. © UNFPA/Ollivier Girard

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Dignity kits bring hygiene supplies to vulnerable communities in pandemic-affected area of the Gambia

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Dignity kits contain supplies to help women and girls protect themselves and their communities from the pandemic. © Gambia Red Cross Society/BubaDarboe

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Korean cooperation helps give Ivorian fistula survivors a new lease on life

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Blandine with her new daughter and husband. © UNFPA/Didier Djiloni

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Learning from Ebola experience, Liberia deploys contact tracers to break COVID-19 transmission

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Contact tracers are urgently being recruited, trained and deployed to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the challenges they face are similar to those in the earlier Ebola epidemic, including mistrust and misinformation. © UNFPA Liberia/Calixte S. Hessou

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UNFPA and Philips reach important milestone to benefit 570,000 mothers and newborns in Republic of the Congo

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At the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, the Republic of the Congo committed to ensuring that all pregnant women have an antenatal consultation and deliver their babies with a skilled birth attendant by 2022. © UNFPA Republic of the Congo

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A look back at the 2010s: A decade of voices and choices

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The world has seen both peril and promise in the last 10 years.

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In the Sahel, where motherhood is deadliest, midwives are saving lives

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The first woman to give birth at Fatoumata Diallo's clinic named her daughter after the midwife. © Vincent Tremeau/World Bank

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In Mauritania, imams take to radio waves to say child marriage is against Islam

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Real men respect women, says school for husbands in Burkina Faso

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The school for husbands and future husbands teaches men to empower their wives through behavior change. Here, men practice domestic skills to ease the burden on their wives. © UNFPA/Ollivier Girard

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Sahel project helps women raise themselves, their communities from poverty

With new World Bank funding, SWEDD 2 to expand to Cameroon, Republic of Guinea

Dignity kits bring hygiene supplies to vulnerable communities in pandemic-affected area of the Gambia

Korean cooperation helps give Ivorian fistula survivors a new lease on life

Learning from Ebola experience, Liberia deploys contact tracers to break COVID-19 transmission

UNFPA and Philips reach important milestone to benefit 570,000 mothers and newborns in Republic of the Congo

A look back at the 2010s: A decade of voices and choices

In the Sahel, where motherhood is deadliest, midwives are saving lives

In Mauritania, imams take to radio waves to say child marriage is against Islam

Real men respect women, says school for husbands in Burkina Faso

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