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Women in Mexican Community Embark on Income Generation Effort
The women of the Del Carmen community in Mexico’s Hidalgo state recently received equipment to establish a candy-making industrial kitchen, thanks to the efforts of UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and former Miss Universe…
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UNFPA to Help Sudan Reduce Maternal Deaths, Prevent HIV/AIDS
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Sudan recently signed an agreement to implement a new, five-year population programme in the African country.
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‘Personalizing Population’ Highlights UNFPA Success Stories
In 1998 the United Nations Foundation funded a small media project for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). This project, called “Personalizing Population”, was conceived as a way to focus popular media attention…
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UNFPA Promotes Cairo Programme Implementation in Kyrgyzstan
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) office in Kyrgyzstan recently held a workshop in the capital, Bishkek, to promote the implementation of the Programme of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on…
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World’s Youth Resolve to Lead Anti-HIV/AIDS Crusade, Promote Responsibility
DAKAR, Senegal – Youths from nearly 90 countries resolved to lead the crusade against HIV/AIDS all over the world, in adopting the Dakar Youth Empowerment Strategy at the end the Fourth World Youth Forum of the United…
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Least Developed States Demand Strongest Measures Against HIV/AIDS
The Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries held in Brussels, from 14 to 20 May 2001, concluded by adopting by consensus a political declaration in which 193 participating governments committed…
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"Men Must Help End Gender Violence", Says UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in Cambodia
Violence against women is, unfortunately, widespread in many parts of the world. Because they lack power, women suffer discrimination from early childhood and are too often the victims of domestic violence.
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Botswana Struggles to Overcome the Worst AIDS Rate in the World
Francistown -- Botswana is the front line of the war against AIDS. This insidious disease has spread silently, but all too swiftly through the population of this southern African nation, that sits on top of South Africa.
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Epilogue to Childhood Encounter
My first and last encounter with a victim of vesico-vaginal fistula, better known by its acronym VVF, was almost 40 years ago. She was a constant visitor to my uncle's house in my old neighbourhood in Maiduguri,…
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