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Two African Beauty Queens on a Mission to End Obstetric Fistula

24 January 2010
Frances Tekyi Mensah, aka Miss Ghana@50, travels to villages and towns throughout her country to raise awareness about obstetric fistula and to improve the lives of women with this devastating injury of childbearing. Photo:UNFPA Ghana.
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Scaling Up Access to Family Planning in Southern Ethiopia

11 January 2010
A nurse supervisor training health extension workers on contraceptive insertion. Photo : Abraham Gelaw/UNFPA.
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Joint Programme Aims to Scale Up Efforts on Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia

07 January 2010
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Funding Gaps, High Fertility and Child Marriage Thwart Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality in DRC

06 January 2010
Pregnency remains dangerous in the DRC. Four women die there every hour from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Photo:Micah Albert
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Family Planning is Helping to Save Mothers' Lives in Guinea-Bissau

28 December 2009
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Shelter from the Storm: Escaping from Gender Violence in Ethiopia

07 December 2009
Talkwando training builds confidence of women who seek refuge at the shelter and gives them skills to defend themselves.
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Country on the Move: Rwanda’s Family Planning Efforts Begin to Pay Off

11 November 2009
Women at the Muhura health post are eager to talk about why they like being able to plan their families. Photo: Janet Jensen
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Press Release

Population Fund Sends Emergency Safe Motherhood Supplies for Zimbabwe Cyclone Victims

14 March 2000
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Five Ways of Looking at Maternal Health: The Mothers of Ethiopia

11 November 2009
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Press Release

UNFPA Airlifts Emergency Supplies for Eritrea; Board Endorses Rapid-Response Fund

21 June 2000
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