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Struggling to End Female Genital Cutting in Uganda
Betty Cheboi sits uneasily on a small wooden bench in her ramshackle shop perched on the edge of a jagged ravine in the remote hill community of Kapchorwa, near Mt. Elgon in western Uganda.
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Rwandan Parliamentarians Work To Halve Maternal Deaths
KIBUYE, Rwanda — The network of Rwandan parliamentarians this week outlined a bold four-point advocacy programme to reduce maternal deaths by 40 per cent by increasing the nation’s low contraceptive prevalence rate of 4…
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Germany's Government 'Called to Account'
Alfred Biolek, prominent German television personality and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, presented a giant invoice to the State Secretary of the German Ministry for Development and Economic Cooperation, Erich Stather.
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Peer Educators Network Works to Prevent Spread of HIV/AIDS Among Youth in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Her friends call her Natalia, but it’s not her real name. This 20-year-old blonde from St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation, was diagnosed HIV positive a year ago. Natalia claims her stepfather forced her to have sex…
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UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Visits Kabul
UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Goedele Liekens traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan for a one day visit on 20 May.
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Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis
Helen Ditsebe-Mhone is an outspoken advocate of the need to take action to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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Making Informed Choices: Providing Youth Friendly Reproductive Health Services in Viet Nam
HANOI, Viet Nam – “So, how many kinds of love do we know?” The actor looks at the audience, some 70 young wide-eyed Vietnamese students crammed together in a classroom in one of Hanoi’s overcrowded junior high schools,…
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Multi-Media Centre Provides Hands on Training for Youth in Benin
<p> <b>COTONOU, Benin</b>—The new Multi-Media Centre complex is bustling with hands-on activity.</p>
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Latin American, Caribbean Countries Poised to Reaffirm Cairo Consensus
SANTIAGO, Chile—Thirty-two Latin American and Caribbean countries stand poised to adopt a declaration reaffirming their commitment to the Programme of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and…
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