<p> <b>United Nations, New York</b> – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today announced it is airlifting reproductive health supplies to victims of the recent earthquake in El Salvador. The supplies are scheduled to ship early on Monday.</p>

<p> <b>United Nations, New York</b> -- Lara Dutta, the current Miss Universe and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will assess the needs of her country’s youth when she visits adolescent assistance projects in India from 22 to 25 January, as part of the Face to Face campaign.</p>

<p> <b>United Nations, New York</b> - Staff members of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are mourning their colleague, Dr. Bayarmaa Batchuluun, killed in Sunday’s helicopter crash in north-west Mongolia.</p>

<p> <b>United Nations, New York</b> – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today formally presented Miss Universe 2000, Lara Dutta, as its Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face Campaign Spokesperson for India.</p>

Addis Ababa - "Gender bias is the friend of HIV infection," United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Dr. Nafis Sadik said today at the African Development Forum 2000.

Addis Ababa—Inequality between women and men is a key factor in the spread of HIV/AIDS and must be addressed in all efforts to counter the disease, participants in the African Development Forum 2000 heard today.

<p class="bodytext"> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today appointed German television producer and moderator, Alfred Biolek, its Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face Campaign Spokesperson for Germany.</p>

UNITED NATIONS, New York - Prevention is “our first and most potent defence” against the further spread of HIV/AIDS, the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Nafis Sadik, said today.

<p class="bodytext"> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> –The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today asked the international donor community to help meet urgent reproductive health needs among victims of conflict and natural disasters around the world.</p>

<p class="bodytext"> <b>United Nations, New York</b> – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), today welcomed news that the Netherlands will contribute $39 million and the United Kingdom nearly $37 million to UNFPA to avert a crisis in contraceptive and other reproductive health supplies in developing countries.</p>

<p> <b>UNITED NATIONS, New York</b> – Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), today welcomed the announcement by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he has appointed Ms. Thoraya Obaid of Saudi Arabia to head the Fund effective 1 January 2001.</p> <br/>

<p> <b>Phnom Penh</b> – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has named Chea Samnang, a doctor and actor, as its Goodwill Ambassador for Cambodia. Born on Christmas Day in 1971 in the capital, Phnom Penh, Dr. Samnang spent a lot of his childhood in the countryside, after his family fled the city during the rule of the Khmer Rouge. After the regime’s collapse, his family returned to Phnom Penh, where he went to school and completed his secondary education in 1988. He proceeded to a university in 1992 and became a doctor in 1999.</p>