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Bank, 'Big 8' Health Leaders Agree on Strategy to Help Poor Nations

02 August 2007
(Left-right) World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Vice President Joy Phumaphi; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health president Tadataka Yamada; UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine; UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman; GAVI Alliance Executive Secretary Julian Lob-Levyt; WHO Director - General Margaret Chan; and UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Michel Sidibe attend the first Informal Meeting
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Sadness and Optimism Mark International Women's Day Celebration in Haiti

09 March 2010
UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid speaking to a mother and her child waiting to be attended at a clinic that provides integrated primary healthcare that include reproductive health and testing, treatment and counselling for HIV and AIDS. This is a model for an integrated package of services at the community level. Photo: Dimitry Leger/UNFPA.
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Bill & Melinda Gates, Asian Parliamentary Group, Win 2010 United Nations Population Award

10 March 2010
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Day Camp Provides Young Haitians with Respite from the Boredom of Displacement

19 March 2010
One of the workshops at Camp de L'Avenir teaches participatants how to construct a building from plastic bottles filled with sand. Photo: Trygve Olfames/UNFPA
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American Idol’s David Cook Helps Brighten the Future for Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia

21 April 2010
American idol winner David Cook, left and Neal Tiemann, right, perform for student of Birth Tesfa, a United Nations programm supported by UNFPA , in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo:Stuart Ramson/UN Foundation.
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Ending Harmful Practices through Community-led Social Change in Senegal

20 April 2010
Some of the Senegalese girls who are being spread the pain of female genital mutilation/cutting as a result of Tostan's work in their community.
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Sri Lankans Play Around with Gender Stereotypes

28 April 2010
Women engage their strength in a tug-of-war competition.
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UNFPA Helps Plan and Monitor Successful DPRK Census

15 February 2010
Officials and monitors head out tro observe the enumeration process. Photo:UNFPA
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Convincing Egyptian Doctors to 'Do No Harm'

07 May 2010
Throughout Egypt, female genital cutting/mutilation remains a common practice. Credit Teun Voeten.
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United Nations Population Award Ceremony to Honour Bill & Melinda Gates, Asian Parliamentarians

01 June 2010
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