News
In war-torn Yemen, life-threatening pregnancy complication finds a happy ending
- 30 January 2020
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Resources
Chapter 1: Cost of Ending Preventable Maternal Deaths
Resource date: Jan 2020
Publisher: UNFPA
This is the first chapter of Costing the Three Transformative Results, which focuses on new research to estimate the costs associated the global effort led by UNFPA towards: (a) ending preventable maternal deaths, (b) ending the unmet need for family planning, (c) ending gender-based violence and all harmful practices, including child marriage and female genital mutilation.
This chapter focuses on the estimated cost of ending preventable maternal deaths. It was compiled by UNFPA partners at Johns Hopkins University.
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News
In Uzbekistan, midwives learn to make calls that save lives
- 17 January 2020
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News
A look back at the 2010s: A decade of voices and choices
- 23 December 2019
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This is how much it will cost to realize the world we want
- 13 November 2019
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In the Sahel, where motherhood is deadliest, midwives are saving lives
- 22 November 2019
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As fighting rages in north-eastern Syria, UNFPA and partners rush to meet the needs of women
- 11 December 2019
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Publication
Icons & Activists: 50 years of people making change
Number of pages: 240
Publication date: 14 Nov 2019
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of UNFPA and the 25th of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, this book showcases the "change makers" who have made substantial contributions to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and population and development more broadly. The purpose of this book is to give some sense of how much has been achieved through the efforts of so many - and perhaps to offer inspiration for the future.
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Imagine a world...
Published on: 13/11/2019
Imagine a world where no one is subjected to violence because of their gender, where no girl is forced to marry, where no girl of woman is subjected to female genital mutilation of harmful practice. Imagine a world where every couple can decide freely when and if to have children.
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News
When health workers harm: the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Egypt
- 02 October 2019
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