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Experts call for Youth Empowerment, Sexual and Reproductive Health

14 November 2013
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World Bank Group, UNFPA, Pledge to Improve Maternal and Reproductive Health of Women and Adolescent Girls in Africa’s Sahel Region

11 November 2013
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Family Planning Conference Highlights Political Commitment and the Importance of Youth

12 November 2013
<p>Balanish Gamada (left) is one of three million volunteer leaders mobilized across Ethiopia to provide counselling and help increase the use of health services, including family planning. She is responsible for a population of 38,000 in her local administrative district of Aleltu, close to the capital Addis Ababa. <i>Photo &copy; UNFPA/Etienne Franca</i> </p>
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Providing ‘Safe Spaces’ for Adolescent Girls in Niger

08 November 2013
<p>Young girls share their impressions about how they are already benefitting from the &lsquo;safe space&rsquo; programme with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Osotimehin. <i>Photo credit: UNFPA Niger/Moussa Abdou Saley</i> </p>
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UN, World Bank Boost Support for Women’s Health, Girls’ Education in Africa’s Sahel

07 November 2013
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Opinion

Act Now, Act Big to End Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

06 November 2013
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News

Graduating Health Pioneers in the World’s Youngest Country

21 October 2013
<p>Newly graduated midwives and nurses celebrate as they obtain their diplomas from the Juba College of Nursing and Midwifery in South Sudan. <i>Photo: &copy; UNFPA/South Sudan</i> </p>
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Towards Ending Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

08 October 2013
<p>Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin (right), the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura (centre), and the Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Tewodros Melesse, are visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo in an effort to deepen political commitment in the fight against sexual violence in the country. <i>Photo: &copy; Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque/UNFPA</i> </p>
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Giving birth in the DRC – in pictures

08 October 2013
<p>Dr Along Diana Andersen does the rounds, together with nurses, examining post- and prenatal patients in the maternity ward of Mosango hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <i>Photo: &copy; Sven Torfinn/Panos/H4+</i> </p>
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Press Release

Africa Puts Rights of Women and Youth at Heart of Continent’s Future Development

07 October 2013
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