<p> <strong>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan</strong> — Some 17,000 earthquake-affected women in Pakistan are expected to give birth in the next two months.</p>

<p> <strong>JOHANNESBURG, South Africa</strong> — African governments should urgently ensure the rapid implementation of national and regional programmes to address maternal health and obstetric fistula, according to participants at the African Regional Workshop on Making Motherhood Safer by Addressing Obstetric Fistula.</p>

<p> <strong>JOHANNESBURG, South Africa</strong> — African leaders should build on the agreement and momentum of the recent World Summit to ensure that reproductive health is integrated in national reports on the Millennium Development Goals, poverty reduction strategies as well as national plans and budgets, said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p> <strong>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan</strong> — Six mobile medical service units have begun providing care to families in two of the districts most affected by last week’s earthquake.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Sexual violence in armed conflict and disaster settings can be stopped.</p>

UNITED NATIONS, New York — UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is seeking just over $1 million for emergency health assistance for women affected by Hurricane Stan in Guatemala and El Salvador.

<p> <strong>LONDON / NEW YORK</strong> — Global efforts to “make poverty history” will fail unless world leaders act now to end gender discrimination, according to <em>The State of World Population 2005</em> report, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — As trucks carrying life-saving medicine and surgical supplies began to arrive in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, the area worst hit by Saturday’s devastating earthquake, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, issued an appeal today for $3.2 million to meet the urgent needs of women, including pregnant women and those with newborns.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Global efforts to "make poverty history" are bound to fail if world leaders do not act now to end gender discrimination, according to the State of World Population 2005 report by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—The loss of workers to migration is “overwhelming” the world’s health-care systems, according to a new report released by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, at a High Level Panel on International Migration and the Millennium Development Goals held here today.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> —World leaders resolved to achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015, promote gender equality and end discrimination against women, as they ended their three-day 2005 World Summit on Friday night.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>— The United States Administration's decision for the fourth consecutive year not to release $34 million appropriated by Congress for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is regrettable, especially when leaders at the World Summit are stressing the need to act together on global concerns, the Fund said today.</p>