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For busy garment workers in Lesotho, health care comes on wheels

18 October 2016
’Mantina Mphohle receiving health services inside a new mobile clinic, near the factory where she works. © UNFPA Lesotho
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Organizations raise alarm over “global contraceptive crisis”

26 September 2016
Nurse adviser Clementine Denagmi offers family planning counseling at a clinic run by the Benin Family Planning Association in Cotonou, Benin. © UNFPA/Ollivier Girard
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Maternal death rate plunges in Lao People's Democratic Republic

13 July 2016
Agnod counsels villagers on family planning. Efforts like Agnod's have helped the country lower its maternal death rate significantly. © UNFPA/Matthew Taylor
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Five of the greatest sexual health advances since the birth of the UN

23 October 2015
Over the last 70 years, there has been remarkable progress in sexual and reproductive health. Women learn about family planning at a clinic in Tunisia in 1987. © UN Photo/John Isaac
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Giving women choices: Family planning options increase in rural Ethiopia

05 January 2016
Semira Umer, a health extension worker in northern Ethiopia, often counsels women on family planning. She says almost every married woman in the area now knows about the contraceptive options available. ©UNFPA Ethiopia/Mulugeta Ayene
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Acceptance of family planning grows in Afghanistan, but myths linger

23 November 2015
Nargis, a midwife, provides family planning counselling in Herat, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil
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