jeu., 23 mai 2013 18:30:35 +0000 jeu., 23 mai 2013 18:30:35 +0000 http://www.unfpa.org UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. UNFPA – because everyone counts. en-us serrano@unfpa.org (Alvaro Serrano) gruber@unfpa.org (Kimberly Gruber) http://www.unfpa.org/images/unfpalogoxs.gif 80 36 The world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programmes http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10266;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 Expanding access to a choice of affordable and appropriate contraceptive commodities is critical to achieving the goal of reproductive health for all. This report, prepared for the United Nations Commission on Commodities for Women and Children’s Health, provides a review of three contraceptive commodities that are considered to be overlooked or underutilized: the female condom, hormonal implants and emergency contraception. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/1348;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 Women form the backbone of families and communities. When emergencies strike, their important contributions become even more vital. But in times of crisis, the particular strengths an vulnerabilities of women are often overlooked in the rush to provide humanitarian assistance. This booklet describes the ways in which UNFPA works with partners to ensure that the specific needs of women and young people are factored into the planning of all humanitarian assistance and addresses urgent reproductive health needs that are sometimes forgotten. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/12511;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 This flagship report analyzes data and trends to understand who is denied access and why. It examines challenges in expanding access to family planning. And it considers the social and economic impact of family planning as well as the costs and savings of making it available to everyone who needs it. The report asserts that governments, civil society, health providers and communities have the responsibility to protect the right to family planning for women across the spectrum, including those who are young or unmarried. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10236;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 This report provides an overview of achievements in 2011 in linking population dynamics and development, increasing access to maternal and newborn health, increasing availability of family planning, strengthening HIV-prevention services, advocating gender equality and reproductive rights, and increasing young people’s access to services.  2011 marked the birth of the 7 billionth person on Earth. The report highlights UNFPA’s groundbreaking 7 Billion Actions campaign, and its work toward confronting the challenges of a world of 7 billion people. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/11588;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 How do the many the different components of the UNFPA mandate contribute to poverty reduction? This publication analyzes this question in detail, looking at both the micro level (impacts on individuals and households) and the larger picture. The document concludes that the strength of UNFPA's contribution to poverty reduction resides in the complementarity of different interventions and the synergies by which population dynamics, gender equality and reproductive health work together to reduce poverty. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10728;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 Globally, the total number of maternal deaths decreased by from 543 000 in 1990 to 287 000 in 2010. Likewise,  the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) declined from 400 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births in 1990 to 210 in 2010, representing an average annual decline of 3.1 per cent. All developing regions experienced a decline in MMR between 1990 and 2010, with the highest reduction in the 20-year period in Eastern Asia (69 per cent) followed by Northern Africa (66 per cent), Southern Asia (64 per cent), Sub-Saharan Africa (41 per cent), Latin America and the Caribbean (41 per cent), Oceania (38 per cent) and finally Caucasus and Central Asia (35 per cent). Although the latter region experienced the lowest decline, its already low MMR of 71 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births in 1990 made it more challenging to achieve the same decline as another region with a higher 1990 MMR value.   http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10576;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 This case study (and related film), based in Swaziland, is part of a series of joint publications on strengthening linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV. Increasingly the first two prongs – preventing new HIV infections (Prong 1) and preventing unintended pregnancies in women living with HIV (Prong 2) – are receiving the recognition, commitment and programming support required to have an impact. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10413;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 Based on the public health importance of cervical cancer and the opportunities and challenges presented by rapidly developing technologies, this guidance has been developed for UNFPA country offices and programme managers in the Ministry of Health who would wish to develop or update cervical cancer prevention and control programmes. It includes recommendations for governments and their development partners for strategic planning for cervical cancer prevention and control. The programme guidance is the product of a collaborative work of a multidisciplinary group that convened in New York in December 2010 to share evidence and experience in cervical cancer prevention and control programming and develop the guidance. The group included 17 country teams from all regions working on cervical cancer prevention and control, together with technical experts from 7 partner agencies (GAVI, IPPF, Jhpiego, PAHO, PATH, UICC and WHO). Available in five languages.   http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10416;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 UNFPA established the Global Programme to Enhance Reproductive Health Commodity Security in 2007 as a framework for assisting countries in planning for their own needs. As this report documents, progress in the five years since the programme was launched has been very significant. The Global Programme has mobilized $450 million since 2007. While the trend towards greater emphasis on capacity development continues,support to reproductive health commodities through the GPRHCS 2008-2011 includes contraceptives worth 56 million couple-years of protection. Within UNFPA, the Global Programme worked in collaboration with the Maternal Health Thematic Fund to provide programmatic support to ensure that life-saving maternal health drugs and supplies were available in all facilities. The GPRHCS also worked closely with the HIV/AIDS Branch to increase the availability of contraceptives in countries with high HIV prevalence and among vulnerable populations. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10265;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 Expanding access to quality, affordable maternal health medicines is critical to making progress in reducing maternal mortality. However, significant challenges often impede such access. Chief among them is a lack of data on the needs, gaps, systems and financing for maternal health medicines. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/1294;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 UNFPA and UNICEF are working  towards  accelerated abandonment of female genital mutilation/ cutting within 17 countries by 2012. The focus of this joint funding proposal is to leverage social dynamics towards abandonment within selected communities that practice FGM/C. The main strategic approach is to gain the support of an initial core group, which decides to abandon FGM/C and mobilises a sufficient number of people to facilitate a tipping point and thereby create a rapid social shift of the cutting social convention norm. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10575;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 We are at a turning point for delivering on the promise to end child and maternal mortality and improve health – marked by bold new commitments. This strategic framework supports one such commitment, the 'Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive'. It offers guidance for preventing HIV infections and unintended pregnancies – both essential strategies for improving maternal and child health, and eliminating new paediatric HIV infections.   http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/397;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 This handbook, one of the World Health Organization's Family Planning Cornerstones, provides evidence-based guidance developed through worldwide collaboration. It offers clinic-based health care professionals in developing countries the latest guidance on providing with the full range of contraceptive methods. Many additional resources, including an online version, translations (planned for 10 languages), wall charts, chapter summaries, checklists, and ordering information are available here. If you have earlier versions of the report, please print and note these changes: Summary of Major Changes from 2008 and 2011 Updates http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/7751;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 The framework is structured in two parts: the first provides a snapshot of the progress achieved since ICPD, identifies major remaining gaps and priorities and outlines principles and approaches for programme planning and implementation. The second identifies key priorities and strategies for each of the SRH-related strategic plan outcomes. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/8834;jsessionid=47FC0CD2ED6BCF7170672E551972FE8B.jahia02 This report takes stock of the progress of sexual and reproductive health initiatives of the UNFPA and World Health Organization in four countries in 2011: Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malawi, Senegal and Tajikistan. The studies also focus on how the role of the country offices of the two agencies has changed in the context of sexual and reproductive health.