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Family Planning in Sierra Leone: An Integrated Approach

September 2, 2014

Preliminary results of the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey released in Sierra Leone indicate that the country has improved health services in the last five years, especially in the area of family planning.

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Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Programme Guidance for Countries

Resource date: 2012

Author: Technical experts from 7 partner agencies and 17 country teams from all UNFPA regions

Publisher: UNFPA

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Planning and Implementing an Essential Package of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

Resource date: 2011

Author: Population Council, UNFPA

Publisher: Population Council, UNFPA

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Leaders pledge to help end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths within a generation

26 September 2014
Munira Sha'ban, a renowned Jordanian midwife, speaks at a high-level UN event on improving the survival of women, newborns and children. Beside her are Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Chinese diplomacy leader Li Xiaolin, and Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and For Malaria Ray Chambers. Photo credit: Stuart Ramson/UN Foundation
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In one girl's stand against child marriage, a path forward for development

29 September 2014
Nana shakes the hand of Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird after speaking at a high-level panel on child marriage. Photo credit: Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
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Bearing witness to a revolution in women’s health and rights

01 October 2014
Munira Sha'ban, Jordan's celebrated midwife (centre), with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin and UNFPA Director Dianne Stewart. Photo credit: UNFPA/Omar Kasrawi
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Human rights, dignity must form cornerstone of future sustainable development

22 September 2014
A pregnant woman rests outside the maternity ward at the Kanungu Health Center IV, in Uganda. Photo credit:Tadej Znidarcic
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Highest-level of emergency declared in Iraq

19 August 2014
Women and children await care at a UNFPA-supported maternity clinic in Iraq. Photo credit: UNFPA
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Serving Syrian refugee women amid Iraq's escalating crisis

26 August 2014
UNFPA staff distribute dignity kits, containing essential hygiene supplies, to women in Iraq. Photo credit: UNFPA/Veronica Njikho
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Quadruplets born in rural DRC, with help of emergency obstetric programme

15 August 2014
Quadruplets born at a UNFPA-supported hospital in Niania, DRC. Photo credit: UNFPA DRC
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