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UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Becomes Youngest Portuguese to Win National Honour
LISBON, Portugal—Portuguese actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Catarina Furtado, has been awarded Portugal's "Ordem de Mérito – Comendador," as part of her country's national day celebrations in…
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Voices of Youth on HIV/AIDS
UNITED NATIONS, New York—To win the battle against HIV and AIDS, it is crucial that young people be seen as actors, rather than spectators, and as part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
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Preventing HIV Among Gang Members, Migrants, Youth in Central America and the Caribbean
San Pedro Sula, Honduras—How do you reach gang-members in Belize, migrants in Guatemala and school dropouts in Honduras with information about preventing HIV?
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Two Seattle Volunteers Making a Difference in the Fight Against Fistula
In January 2004, millions of Americans tuned in to the Oprah Winfrey Show and learned of a little-known childbearing injury called obstetric fistula.
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El Salvador: Preventing Children from Having Children
SOYAPANGO, El Salvador — "I don’t want to spoil my future by repeating the mistakes my mother made", says 16-year-old Karla.
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Laotian Youth Teach Peers to Protect Their Reproductive Health
PHONTONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A visiting health education team has set up a stage and loudspeakers, and the whole village has come to watch.
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UNFPA, OPEC Fund, Governments Confront New Urgency of HIV Infections in Central America and the Caribbean
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras—United Nations officials, youth representatives and policymakers in Central America and the Caribbean are meeting in San Pedro Sula, Honduras to find new methods to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS…
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Experts in Africa Meet to Develop Training Guidelines for Fistula Treatment
NIAMEY, Niger —Improved training for medical workers providing fistula treatment would help end the needless suffering of thousands of African women with obstetric fistula, experts meeting in Niger agreed on Friday.
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Mobile Reproductive Health Clinics Make Motherhood Safer in Remote Lao Villages
SONG KLONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A medical officer from a travelling health team sits at a table outside a hut in this remote village and examines Ny Sirimatham and her infant son.
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