<p class="bodytext"> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> – All my colleagues at UNFPA and I are extremely saddened and horrified by the explosion at United Nations Headquarters, Baghdad, which wounded many people and took the lives of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq, other international personnel and innocent Iraqis.</p>

<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b>—As part of a United Nations inter-agency appeal for emergency aid for Liberia, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today asked donors to provide $1.9 million for reproductive health services in the war-torn country.</p>

<p> <b>NEW YORK</b> - UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, welcomed Dr. Jong-Wook Lee as Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), stressing that his leadership would benefit the health of women, adolescents and families worldwide.</p>

<p>In an effort to restore and support reproductive health services in Iraq, a new shipment of emergency reproductive health supplies, intended to meet the urgent needs of Iraqi women, was delivered by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to key maternity hospitals and primary healthcare centres in Baghdad.</p>

<p class="bodytext"> <b>KABUL</b>—Mothers and infants in north-west Kabul have a far better chance of surviving childbirth, following the inauguration today of a modern hospital rebuilt and refurbished with support from the Government of Italy and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</p>

<p class="bodytext"> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> – More than one billion people are 10 to 19 years old – the largest youth generation in history.</p>

<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> - The first report ever to map obstetric fistula in sub-Saharan Africa was launched today by UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) and EngenderHealth.</p>

<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> — A new shipment of emergency reproductive health supplies, intended to meet the urgent needs of Iraqi women, arrived in Baghdad on 9 June.</p>

<p class="bodytext"> <b>ACCRA, GHANA</b> – In a telephone interview Monday from the besieged capital of Monrovia, Liberian Minister of Health Dr Peter Coleman said that doctors and nurses in two public hospitals were working overtime to deal with mounting casualties from combatants and non-combatants alike, but were becoming overwhelmed by a lack of adequate personnel and supplies.</p>

<p> <b>AKOSOMBO, GHANA</b> – As Liberian rebels closed in on Monrovia and refugees began fleeing, a humanitarian strategy meeting convened by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has warned that conflict in the region was worsening an already immense humanitarian crisis, with devastating health consequences for women and girls, in particular.</p>

<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK</b> - To combat high levels of maternal mortality and meet people’s needs for family planning, UNFPA and other partners have agreed to significantly expand the delivery of reproductive health commodities and services in Pakistan during the next five years.</p>

<p class="bodytext"> <b>UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK</b> — A shipment of much-needed reproductive health supplies and medications arrived last week in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.</p>