sam., 25 mai 2013 02:26:02 +0000 sam., 25 mai 2013 02:26:02 +0000 http://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://unfpa.org/images/unfpalogoxs.gif http://unfpa.org 80 36 The world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programmes http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14206;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 An estimated 2 to 3 million women and girls in developing countries are living with obstetric fistula, a condition that has been virtually eliminated in industrialized nations. Obstetric fistula is preventable and in most cases treatable, and yet more than 50,000 new cases develop each year. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14213;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 UNITED NATIONS, New York—UNFPA will launch two new initiatives that will increase access to family planning and improve maternal health in some of the most-hard-to-reach areas around the world, including post-conflict and post-disaster countries. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14115;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 UNITED NATIONS, New York—Countries around the world will mark the first-ever International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, 23 May, with a variety of events to raise awareness of this neglected health and human rights challenge. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14117;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 MAHAJANGA, Madagascar  — Every day, 10 women die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth in Madagascar. Many more survive, but  suffer from untreated complications of pregnancy, including the most debilitating injury of childbearing, obstetric fistulas. Although the condition was not recognized in the country until recently, it is estimated that 2,000 Malagasy women develop fistula each year. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14210;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 In this Opinion piece, published by the British medical journal, The Lancet, UNFPA's Executive Director talked about the results of this year's Commission on the Status of Women, which resulted in several ground-breaking measures to prevent violence against women and support the survivors of such violence. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14027;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 CHITIXL, Guatemala --- "In my village girls do not have access to information nor education," said Sonia Delfina Cho Tún from the Chitixl community in the lush northern highlands of the country. "There isn´t a local high school. We only get to study to sixth grade. Mostly girls marry at age 15, not knowing what their future holds for them and their children. "Parents force them because they say that when they reach age 20 and are single, they can no longer find a husband and are left to grow old alone." http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14024;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 In this Opinion piece, published by CNN, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin talks about the important role men can and must play in lifting the obstacles that prevent women from access voluntary family planning, one of the most cost-effective ways of improving health. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13965;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 SUVA, Fiji — If alarming rates of violence against women are to be effectively addressed, the status of women needs to be elevated.  UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin emphasized the fundamental, often unacknowledged, contributions of women – to families, communities and economies – during the launch of the Pacific Regional ICPD Review report. The persistence of alarming rates of gender-based violence is one of the critical issues in the region. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/14019;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 NIZIP, Turkey — More has to be done to ensure the health and wellbeing of women and children affected by the Syrian conflict, said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UNFPA, on a recent visit to Turkey's Nizip refugee camp, about 40km east of the southern city of Gaziantep. One of Turkey's newest camps, Nizip houses some 10,000 refugees, or "guests" as the government prefers to call them, in white canvas tents and containers arrayed in neat numbered rows along the rocky, sun-bleached banks of the Euphrates. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13966;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 ZA'ATARI, Jordan — In a tent hospital bed, a Syrian woman who was four months pregnant when she fled her country's civil war cradles one of the newest residents of this dust-swept refugee camp: Her newborn son, just delivered by Caesarean. Around a dozen babies are born every day in Za'atari camp, which is home to 120,000 Syrians and counting – and there's only one, overworked Moroccan doctor performing C-sections. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13903;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 On this International Day of the Midwife, UNFPA and the International Confederation of Midwives, celebrate the work of midwives in contributing to the miracle of birth—and for the myriad other things they do every day to contribute to the wellbeing of mothers and children around the world. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13899;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 Chidbirth is perhaps the riskiest and most miraculous time in a woman's life. And midwives are truly the unsung heroines of the challenge to reduce the risks women face in bringing forth life. Now, armed with better skills and training, midwives are increasingly able to deal with life-threatening emergencies and are playing a critical role in making motherhood safer around the world. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13696;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 BANGUI, Central African Republic — Fierce fighting between rebel troops and Central African armed forces beginning in March has left widespread insecurity in the country. Cases of collective sexual violence and massive looting of public offices, housing and health facilities were reported, resulting in a massive internal displacement of populations and a drastic shortage of essential medicines, medical equipment and supplies in health centres meant to welcome and provide care to many victims of this crisis. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13694;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 UNITED NATIONS, New York—An academic institution affiliated with the Al-Azhar University in Egypt and a public health advocate from Uganda were announced yesterday as winners of the 2013 United Nations Population Award. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/news/pid/13697;jsessionid=1B6120388053CA36D595FB390D3E8A04.jahia01 UNITED NATIONS, New York — In an increasingly interconnected world, more individuals than ever before are leaving their homes to begin a new life somewhere else. Since 1990 the number of migrants has increased from 155 million to around 214 million, with women making up an increasing proportion of that total.