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Learning from Ebola experience, Liberia deploys contact tracers to break COVID-19 transmission

22 April 2020
Contact tracers are urgently being recruited, trained and deployed to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the challenges they face are similar to those in the earlier Ebola epidemic, including mistrust and misinformation. © UNFPA Liberia/Calixte S. Hessou
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UNFPA Supplies COVID-19 update - 16 April 2020

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UNFPA is working with governments and partners to avoid or minimize shortages of contraceptives and life-saving maternal health medicines―all in close coordination. Together, we are working to prioritize supply requests, orders, shipments, production schedules and other operational aspects of procurement. We aim to ensure product availability in countries.

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Pandemic threatens communities ravaged by war and crisis, global support needed

16 April 2020
Outreach workers in Syria are raising awareness about the pandemic. © UNFPA Syria
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