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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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UNFPA is helping to educate women about family planning options. © UNFPA/Annette Poni
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Flood relief in Myanmar includes family planning supplies

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Phoo Ngun, her husband Zaw Moe and their two daughters in the flood-devastated Ayayawady Region. Family planning supplies will help flood-affected women recover without worrying about unplanned pregnancies. © UNFPA Myanmar/Yenny Gamming
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Adolescent Girls in Disaster & Conflict

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UNFPA

Publication date

Aug 2016

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

88

Publication

Adolescent Girls in Disaster & Conflict

Interventions for Improving Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

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Girls in Uganda become SDG "ambassadors," fight teen pregnancy with poetry

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Students perform their award-winning poem, "The Life that is Worthy." Their message makes them ambassadors of sustainable development, said leaders at the 2016 Music, Dance and Drama Festival.
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Brazilian funk music sensation Dream Team do Passinho calls for "More Rights, Less Zika"

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Dream Team do Passinho launches their hit new song, "More Rights, Less Zika" on World Population Day 2016. The song is a collaboration between the popular music group and UNFPA. © UNFPA Brazil/Tatiana Almeida
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Mais Direitos e Menos Zika (More rights, less Zika)

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Mais Direitos e Menos Zika (More rights, less Zika)

Mais Direitos e Menos Zika (More rights, less Zika)

Brazilian funk sensation Dream Team do Passinho has released a new song in partnership with UNFPA. Released on World Population Day 2016, the song is titled "Mais Direitos e Menos Zika," which translates to "More rights, Less Zika." It calls attention to the fact that Zika disproportionately affects marginalized communities in Brazil, and it encourages the use of condoms to prevent the sexual transmission of Zika. Read more about the song here.

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No place too far: Midwives deployed to far-flung villages in Myanmar

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Midwife Daw Aye Myint visits the home of a new mother for a postpartum check-up in the remote region of Magway. © UNFPA Myanmar
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Poverty, inequality at the heart of the Zika outbreak

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Greicy Alves with her son, Gabriel, who has microcephaly. Ms. Alves was diagnosed with Zika in her first trimester. Marginalized women are disproportionately affected by the outbreak. © UNFPA/Tatiana Almeida
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