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Increasing access to sexual and reproductive health and HIV programmes for gender-diverse communities in Bangladesh
”I have never been loved or respected by anyone in my life except a few early years by my mother,” said Shohan, a transgender woman living in Dhaka who left her family when she was 11.
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After giving birth under a bridge amid hurricane wreckage, recovery remains a distant prospect for Honduran mother
Fabiola Ulloa, 23, gave birth under a bridge where she had taken shelter from a raging hurricane.
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COVID-19 heightened menstruation challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean; action and investment needed
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life for people around the globe, including the way people experience and perceive menstruation. Latin America and the Caribbean region has been no exception.
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Mozambique, Angola help girls manage menstrual health and hygiene in crisis and beyond
It can be challenging enough when a girl gets her first period – she may not even know what is happening to her body. Now put her in a situation in which she’s been displaced or vulnerable because of a natural disaster…
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First menstruation is often accompanied by fear, shame, lack of information, women and girls in Arab states reveal
An informal online survey in the region found 24 of 69 respondents had no information about menstruation prior to experiencing their first period.
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Urgent funding needed to assist survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Tigray
“I was running from place to place without food or shelter. I was in fear all the time... There was no safe place for me until I got to the safe house,” 22-year-old Selam* recounted to UNFPA.
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Piloting drones to deliver life-saving products for women in rural Botswana
This month, Botswana became the first country in Southern Africa, and the third in Africa, to pilot drone technology for health-care delivery.
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In Mozambique, an obstetric fistula survivor's journey from "I was nothing" to "I am capable of everything"
Beatriz Sebastião suffered in silence. She had no friends in the neighborhood or at school. When she went to church, she sat alone. When she went to the river, other women mocked her before leaving to bathe elsewhere.…
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Tanzanian helpline reaching thousands of at-risk women and girls every day
“I was very scared on behalf of the poor child. I felt her pain,” the counsellor told Dr. Kanem. “But I told myself I should be strong for that child."
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