<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>— How can better public health, particularly reproductive health, help end maternal death and the spread of HIV/AIDS, and eradicate extreme poverty by 2015?</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — The Government of Spain and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today signed a new agreement that formally acknowledges the "growing importance" and "new challenges" inherent in key population issues, such as migration, aging and HIV/AIDS.</p>

<p> <strong>BANGKOK, Thailand</strong>— Re-establishing quality reproductive health services is a top priority for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, six months after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — Hajja was four months pregnant when she and her family were driven from their home by fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan.</p>

<p> <strong>FREETOWN, Sierra Leone</strong> — A three-year project to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among refugees, displaced populations and their host communities in the post-conflict border areas of Guinea, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone was launched here today.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—A world in which a woman risks death each minute in order to bring new life must be transformed, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, said today.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—A leading demographer, Mercedes Concepcion, of the Philippines, and Guatemala’s largest private family planning provider, Asociación Pro-Bienestar de la Familia de Guatemala (APROFAM ONG), have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> — With efforts to prevent HIV brutally insufficient, brave and committed leadership is urgently needed to boost HIV prevention in the AIDS programmes of nations around the world, according to Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p> <strong>JAKARTA, Indonesia —</strong> Four community-based psychosocial support centres opened last month to assist traumatized tsunami survivors and victims of violence in hard-hit sections of Aceh province.</p>

<p> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong>—In June 2001, the United Nations General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) recognized HIV/AIDS as the single greatest threat to the well-being of future generations.</p>

<p> <strong>N’DJAMENA, Chad</strong>—Speakers and leaders of African parliaments should commit more resources to stop millions of Africa’s people from dying of HIV/AIDS, poverty and disease by implementing live-saving population and reproductive health programmes, says an appeal today by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p> <strong>DUBAI —</strong> Young people, who make up the majority of Arab population, represent a great opportunity and an important wealth of new energy that local and national authorities must invest in, said Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, an Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>