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A new lease on life for women living with obstetric fistula in Afghanistan

22 May 2014
<p>Sharifa (left) at the Malalai Maternity Hospital talking to the doctor that treated her fistula, Dr. Pashtoon Kohistani. <i>Photo credit: Zainab Hiadary/UNFPA Afghanistan</i> </p>
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Providing Support for the Chibok Girls and their Families

19 May 2014
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In South Sudan, 200,000 pregnant women may need urgent care

19 May 2014
<p>Pregnant women attend a health seminar at a UNFPA-run health centre in the Tomping displacement camp in Juba, South Sudan. <i>Photo credit: UNFPA/Tim McKulka</i> </p>
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Côte d’Ivoire rolls out campaign to reduce adolescent pregnancies

16 May 2014
Students in C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire, where a campaign aims to increase access to sexual and reproductive health services and information. Photo credit: UNFPA C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire
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‘Lost Children’ Reveal Need to Support Families – and Women

15 May 2014
<p>Journalist and child advocate Gladys Kalibbala with a boy in Uganda. <i>Photo courtesy of Participant Media</i> </p>
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Tailoring Services to Nigeria’s Young People

14 May 2014
<p>Kori Habib speaks to adolescents at Hello Lagos, a youth centre and health programme in Lagos, Nigeria. <i>Photo credit: APANEWS</i> </p>
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The colour purple, changing the future of Afghan mothers

09 May 2014
<p>From left to right: Aqela, Masooma and Fatima, students at the Community Midwifery School in Kabul. <i>Photo credit: Maria Blanco Lora/UNFPA.</i> </p>
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Caught in crisis, South Sudanese women learn to plan their families

07 May 2014
<p>Mothers listen to a community health worker talk about family planning in the Tomping camp in Juba, South Sudan. <i>Photo credit: Kenneth Odiwuor</i> </p>
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Maternal deaths continue to fall, new data show

06 May 2014
<p>Anik, 16, with her newborn at the General Government Hospital in Tulear, Madagascar. UNFPA provides essential materials to new mothers at the hospital. <i>Photo credit: Magnum Photos/Dominic Nahr</i> </p>
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Press release

United Nations agencies report steady progress in saving mothers’ lives

06 May 2014
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