<p align="left"> <strong>NEW YORK/LONDON—</strong>Several of the world’s leading development and health agencies have welcomed the International Health Partnership launched today in London as renewed hope of saving millions of lives in developing countries.</p>

NEW YORK/LIMA—UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is seeking $850,000 in emergency funding to help up to 250,000 victims of the recent earthquake in Peru.

<p align="left"> <strong>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka</strong> — Countries need to make universal access to sexual and reproductive health, HIV prevention, treatment, care and support a top priority says Purnima Mane, Deputy Executive Director (Programme) of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> – A landmark global conference in London this October aims to halt the needless deaths of 10 million women and girls who die in each generation during pregnancy and childbirth, and four million newborn babies who die every year.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — A $44-million programme has been launched to reduce female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) by 40 per cent in 16 countries by 2015 and to end the harmful traditional practice within a generation.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Men should more vigorously participate as partners in maternal health in order to significantly reduce the number of women who die each day in childbirth, said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>DHAKA, Bangladesh</strong> — The United Kingdom, the European Commission (EC) and three United Nations agencies are assisting Bangladesh in a major new effort to save lives and improve the health and well-being of mothers and newborns.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The 2007 winners of the United Nations Population Award will receive their medals this week at an official ceremony at United Nations Headquarters.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, Geneva</strong> — Governments have to increase investment in sexual and reproductive health to strengthen health systems and ensure international health security.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Columbia University’s Allan Rosenfield, Iran’s Hossein Malek Afzali and two institutions have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.</p>

<p> <strong>BRUSSELS, Belgium</strong>—Singer and actress Natalie Imbruglia, television personality Goedele Liekens, high-level politicians and individuals from the Belgian fashion and media scene gathered this evening to rally support for the Campaign to End Fistula, a global effort to address a devastating injury of childbearing that affects more than 2 million women and girls.</p>

<p> <strong>KABUL, Afghanistan</strong> — “No nation can be developed when women die while giving birth,” Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, declared today in an appeal for increased international support for the well-being of Afghanistan’s women.</p>