UNITED NATIONS, New York—Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the new Executive Director of UNFPA, today put forth his vision as the Fund’s leader, focusing on the challenges of a world population of 7 billion and the needs of the largest generation of young people.

<p>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The United Nations continues to support the Government of Sri Lanka to help over a million flood-affected people.</p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York - One year after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, UNFPA calls for increased support for women and young people in the country’s recovery and reconstruction efforts.</p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today welcomed a decision by the United Nations General Assembly to extend the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development  beyond 2014.</p>

<p>UNITED NATIONS, New York—UNFPA and the Millennium Villages Project  announced an agreement today to promote universal access to reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa in order to protect the lives of young mothers.</p>

<p>BANGKOK—While progress has been made in providing family planning services in Asia and the Pacific, a significant number of countries still lag behind, concluded more than 150 experts from the region at the end of a meeting here today.</p>

<p>DAKAR, Senegal—Midwives play a leading role in efforts to prevent obstetric fistula, and governments must support them so they can attend all childbirths, help identify existing fistula cases and support referral for treatment of the devastating childbirth injury.</p>

<p>DAKAR—A new set of priorities for the global fight against obstetric fistula will be in focus this week as specialists from around the world gather here to discuss ways to eliminate the preventable childbirth injury.</p>

<p>NEW YORK—Achieving an AIDS-free generation is possible if the international community steps up efforts to provide universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, and social protection, according to “Children and AIDS: Fifth Stocktaking Report 2010,” which was released today in New York.</p>

ISLAMABAD—As part of its humanitarian response to Pakistan’s worst natural disaster in living memory, UNFPA  is coordinating interventions to prevent and respond to gender-based violence among the affected population.

<p>AMMAN—UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Princess Basma Bint Talal, received the Fund’s The State of World Population 2010 at a round-table forum at the United Nations building.</p>

<p>DAR ES SALAAM—UNFPA and the United Kingdom Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), today signed a 5-million-pound agreement to help the 2012 Population and Housing Census in Tanzania.</p>