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Overcrowded Hospital Wards: Performing Caesarean Sections on a Park Bench

PORT-AU-PRINCE—Six days after the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti, hospitals in the capital, Port-au-Prince, are flooded with victims, many of them with crushed limbs or fractured bones. But another kind of…

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Waiting to Give Birth Among Rubble and Disaster Victims

PORT-AU-PRINCE—Dientola Astrel, a pregnant 29-year-old woman, says she was out walking when the devastating earthquake hit Haiti.

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Earthquake in Haiti: UNFPA Concerned Over Critical Situation for Women

PANAMA CITY, Panama — UNFPA extends solidarity and compassion to the people of Haiti who are suffering from the recent devastating earthquake.

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Scaling Up Access to Family Planning in Southern Ethiopia

WOLAITA SODO, Ethiopia — It’s no ordinary day for Fanaye Fanta. Since her initial training to become a health extension worker three years ago, Fanaye has taken clients’ temperature and blood pressure and provided…

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United States Renews Full Commitment to ICPD

UNITED NATIONS — United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today marked the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) by announcing her government’s renewed…

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Travel Restrictions Based on HIV status Removed in Republic of Korea and US

GENEVA, WASHINGTON, DC – UNAIDS, as well as UNFPA, one of its ten cosponsors, strongly welcome the elimination of travel restrictions based on HIV status by the Republic of Korea, effective 1 January 2010.

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Joint Programme Aims to Scale Up Efforts on Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian health officials, the UN Country Team in Ethiopia and visiting UN Health 4 (H4) partners have, in collaboration with donor partners and others, developed a comprehensive three-year work…

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Funding Gaps, High Fertility and Child Marriage Thwart Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality in DRC

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Years of conflict and instability mean the Democratic Republic of Congo is still among the worst countries in the world to be pregnant, despite a nationwide push to improve…

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Village Health Educators in Thailand Help Prevent Minority Mothers' Deaths

MAE HONG SORN, Thailand – Hidden between towering mountains, with forested slopes stretching to the Myanmar border, this province is covered with mist virtually all year round.

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