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Bhutanese Midwife Learns from Thailand’s Experience
LOEI, Thailand — After four days of trekking from his village by foot, a two-day bus ride across Bhutan, an international flight to Bangkok and a long van ride, Sonam finally arrived at this mountainous province in…
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UNFPA Turkey Provides Hygiene Kits to Syrian Refugees
As the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey steadily increases, another batch of 20,000 hygiene kits provided by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) are being distributed to new arrivals in the 14 camps set up by the Turkish…
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A Multi-pronged Approach to Maternal Health in Lao PDR is Getting Results
SEPON HOSPITAL, Lao PDR — Twenty-five-year-old Xanya had twirled herself around her husband for comfort in the family tak-tak (an open-air cart attached to a motor by a long set of handlebars) along the 12 kilometres of…
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Award-Winning Programme Gives Ethiopian Girls a Safer Transition to Adulthood
BAHIR DAR, Ethiopia — Ethiopia's work with adolescent girls has garnered first prize in a Fund-wide contest to identify good practices related to adolescents and youth.
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Countdown to 60 over 60
Due to improvements in health and survival, as well as lower fertility rates, the world is growing older, a demographic trend that was analyzed in the recent report: Ageing in the Twenty-First Century, a Celebration and…
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Piloting Community Maternal Health Care to Save Mothers' Lives in Tibet
GYAMDA COUNTY, Tibet, China—Xi're Qunzong is one of two designated health workers at Niangpu Township hospital, with the responsibility of ensuring that no woman dies from giving life.
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Another Safe Delivery in a Jordanian Refugee Camp
ZA'ATARI CAMP, Mafraq, Jordan— Samira was seven months pregnant when she and her family fled their home "in Syria seeking refuge in the neighbouring country of Jordan.
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Syrian Refugees to Receive 20,000 Family Hygiene Kits
The UNFPA Office in Türkiye has announced that they will deliver 20,000 additional hygiene kits for displaced Syrian families before the end of 2012.
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Creating an 'Oasis' for Syrian Refugees in a Jordanian Camp
ZA'ATARI CAMP, Jordan— Syrian refugees in this encampment have much to deal with: displacement, a fraying social fabric, insecurity, uncertainty and the tension that goes along with it all. But now they have a…
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