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Using Social Media to Empower Madagascar’s Youth

28 October 2013
<p>Manantsoa Ratsarazaka (right) founded a groundbreaking project to educate and encourage young people in Madagascar to discuss reproductive health issues and seek advice, using the ever growing power of social media. <i>Photo &copy; Lovaniaina Tsiandatse/UNFPA</i> </p>
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‘School for Husbands’ Encourages Nigerien Men to Improve the Health of Their Families

20 April 2011
Pupils of School for Husbands' become guides and role models within their own family and among others in the community.
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Malagasy Women Wounded by Child Marriage and its Aftermath

10 October 2012
<p>Alphonsine has lived for nearly 20 years with obstetric fistula and resulting incontinence.&nbsp; She underwent a surgical repair, but needs to undergo another.&nbsp; Photo: UNFPA Madagascar</p>
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Ugandan Communities Scrutinize a Violent – Sometimes Deadly – Rite of Passage

01 February 2013
These schoolchildren in the Moroto district, where FGM/C is still prevalent, were shown a video that explains the negative consequences of the practice. In the past, this information was hidden from them
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South Sudan Country Office Situation Report #53 – 13-19 December 2014

Resource date: 23 December 2014

Author: UNFPA South Sudan

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Avoiding and Mitigating the Health Consequences of FGM/C in Ethiopia

18 June 2013
<p>Sadiya (right) at the hospital with her mother.&nbsp; <i>Photo &copy; UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw</i> </p>
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Abandoning Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia

08 April 2010
A former circumciser teaching community members on harms of FGM/C. Photo: Abraham Gelaw
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South Sudan Country Office Situation Report #52 – 06-13 December 2014

Resource date: 15 December 2014

Author: UNFPA South Sudan

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Strengthening support for the war-weary women of South Sudan

15 December 2014
A refugee woman and her child take shelter in a camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan. Throughout the country, conditions remain treacherous for women's and girls' health. © Hannah McNeish/IRIN
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South Sudan Country Office Situation Report #51 – 30 November-06 December 2014

Resource date: 06 December 2014

Author: UNFPA South Sudan

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The situation remains unpredictable but there was no fighting during the reporting period.
 
Intertribal tensions continue to exist in Malakal, however UNFPA continues to provide front line staff. Midwives will be returning in the next reporting period and a new GBV specialist has arrived in Juba and will begin work in Malakal shortly.
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