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For busy garment workers in Lesotho, health care comes on wheels

calendar_today18 October 2016

’Mantina Mphohle receiving health services inside a new mobile clinic, near the factory where she works. © UNFPA Lesotho

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Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

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Joint UN estimates indicate the Maldives has seen a 90 per cent decline in maternal mortality since 1990. © UNFPA/Shahina Ali

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New rules to help end child marriage in Cameroon

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Faouzia Yaya was forced into marriage three years ago. A new penal code has just been adopted to prevent such marriages. © UNFPA Cameroon

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Organizations raise alarm over “global contraceptive crisis”

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Nurse adviser Clementine Denagmi offers family planning counseling at a clinic run by the Benin Family Planning Association in Cotonou, Benin. © UNFPA/Ollivier Girard

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Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

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Residents flee brutal violence in the Rutshuru territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2012. Women give birth, even in wartime and disasters. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

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African presidents urge investment in youth as continent sees rare demographic opportunity

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World Bank Vice President Keith Hansen, President Idriss Déby of Chad, President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin and moderator Folly Bah Thibault (left to right) at a high-level dialogue on achieving the demographic dividend. © UNFPA/Koye Adeboye

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As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

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A midwife delivers a baby at a health facility in Juba. At UNFPA-supported health facilities in Juba's protection camps, many of the midwives are themselves displaced people. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Calaguian Alano

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Refugees’ and migrants’ reproductive health needs overlooked

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Global leaders are set to meet next week at the first-ever Summit on Migrants and Refugees. At stake are the rights, health and well-being of hundreds of millions of migrants and tens of millions of refugees. © UNFPA Jordan/Sima Diab

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“One-stop shop” brings life-saving HIV care, reproductive health to Botswana’s women

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Rose Matuulane, 24, with one of her children. She is able to access antenatal care, cervical cancer screening, HIV testing and family planning counselling all in the same clinic visit. © UNFPA Botswana/Nchidzi Smarts

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Once frowned on, family planning offers a lifeline in South Sudan

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For busy garment workers in Lesotho, health care comes on wheels

Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

New rules to help end child marriage in Cameroon

Organizations raise alarm over “global contraceptive crisis”

Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

African presidents urge investment in youth as continent sees rare demographic opportunity

As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

Refugees’ and migrants’ reproductive health needs overlooked

“One-stop shop” brings life-saving HIV care, reproductive health to Botswana’s women

Once frowned on, family planning offers a lifeline in South Sudan

For busy garment workers in Lesotho, health care comes on wheels

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