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Bank, 'Big 8' Health Leaders Agree on Strategy to Help Poor Nations

(Left-right) World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Vice President Joy Phumaphi; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health president Tadataka Yamada; UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine; UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman; GAVI Alliance Executive Secretary Julian Lob-Levyt; WHO Director - General Margaret Chan; and UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Michel Sidibe attend the first Informal Meeting

02 August 2007

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Sadness and Optimism Mark International Women's Day Celebration in Haiti

UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid speaking to a mother and her child waiting to be attended at a clinic that provides integrated primary healthcare that include reproductive health and testing, treatment and counselling for HIV and AIDS. This is a model for an integrated package of services at the community level. Photo: Dimitry Leger/UNFPA.

09 March 2010

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Bill & Melinda Gates, Asian Parliamentary Group, Win 2010 United Nations Population Award

10 March 2010

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Day Camp Provides Young Haitians with Respite from the Boredom of Displacement

One of the workshops at Camp de L'Avenir teaches participatants how to construct a building from plastic bottles filled with sand. Photo: Trygve Olfames/UNFPA

19 March 2010

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American Idol’s David Cook Helps Brighten the Future for Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia

American idol winner David Cook, left and Neal Tiemann, right, perform for student of Birth Tesfa, a United Nations programm supported by UNFPA , in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo:Stuart Ramson/UN Foundation.

21 April 2010

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Ending Harmful Practices through Community-led Social Change in Senegal

Some of the Senegalese girls who are being spread the pain of female genital mutilation/cutting as a result of Tostan's work in their community.

20 April 2010

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Sri Lankans Play Around with Gender Stereotypes

Women engage their strength in a tug-of-war competition.

28 April 2010

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UNFPA Helps Plan and Monitor Successful DPRK Census

Officials and monitors head out tro observe the enumeration process. Photo:UNFPA

15 February 2010

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Convincing Egyptian Doctors to 'Do No Harm'

Throughout Egypt, female genital cutting/mutilation remains a common practice. Credit Teun Voeten.

07 May 2010

Media Advisory

United Nations Population Award Ceremony to Honour Bill & Melinda Gates, Asian Parliamentarians

01 June 2010