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Nearly $30 Million Raised for Reproductive and Maternal Health in the Philippines
- 18 May 2012
UNFPA disclosed that its Philippine office raised $28.5 million in the year to date, and that the money will be used to promote reproductive and maternal health, one of the country’s Millennium Development Goals.
“For the current seventh country programme, which started this year and will end in 2016, around $28.5 million has been mobilized and we are expecting more,” UNFPA country representative Ugochi Daniels told reporters in a press conference.
“[The fund] will assist the government in the areas which provide support for maternal and reproductive health of mothers,” UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin said in the same press conference.
He noted the fund will be used for capacity-building, training and data gathering in partnership with the Philippine Government.
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