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Building the future now

Participants talked about the importance of UNFPA-supported thematic funds—the Global Programme to Enhance Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS), the Maternal Health Thematic Trust Fund (MTHF), the Unified Budget and Results Accountability Framework (UBRAF), and the UNFPA/UNICEF Joint Programme on FGM/C—at national level. Country-focused approaches, quick response and support were mentioned as important assets leading to positive changes in the area of health.

24 January 2014

Press Release

African Heads of State, Government, to Speed up Reduction of Maternal Deaths

28 January 2013

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Making family planning a priority in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

A woman rests with her newborn at a birthing centre outside Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Photo credit: UNFPA Turkmenistan

01 August 2014

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UNFPA responds to needs of 36,000 pregnant women displaced in Pakistan

Thousands of displaced families have been living for years in the Jalozai camp in Pakistan's Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At the end of June, military operations in  North Waziristan sent thousands more families into displacement; most of them fled to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu District. Photo credit: OCHA

28 July 2014

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In South Sudan, opposition to family planning exacerbates reproductive health needs

A pregnant women receives antenatal care at a UNFPA clinic in a displacement camp in Juba, South Sudan. The country has too few health professionals to meet women's reproductive health needs.Photo credit: Tim McKulka/UNFPA

30 July 2014

Press Release

UNFPA Alarmed Over Devastating Impact of Gaza Violence on Women, Girls

25 July 2014

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Health needs escalate as crisis in Gaza continues

On 12 July, smoke rises from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip during the escalating violence between Israel and Palestine. Photo credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2014-0909/El Baba

24 July 2014

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Violence survivors seek support amid Syrian conflict

Syrian women seeking reproductive health services at the Al-Halbouni clinic in Damascus, Syria. Photo credit: UNFPA Syria

18 July 2014

Press Release

With 546 days left to score Millennium Development Goals, new roadmap released to save lives of additional 140,000 women, 250,000 newborns by end of 2015

03 July 2014

Press Release

Women, Girls Face Escalating Risk of Violence, Exploitation during Iraq Crisis, Warns UNFPA

30 June 2014