Maternal Mortality Update 2002
Every minute a woman dies from lack of life-saving emergency obstetric care. Addressing this need is the centrepiece of UNFPA's efforts to make…
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Rapid Needs Assessment Tool for Condom Programming
This document was developed in collaboration with the Population Council to design and test a rapid needs assessment and data-gathering tool to…
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Trafficking in Women, Girls and Boys
Trafficking in persons, their transportation and sale for labour of any kind, whether within or outside national boundaries, is a modern form of…
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Communication for Development
This new publication summarizes discussions from the Eighth Roundtable on Communication for Development Roundtable (Managua, 2001) on strategies to…
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Global Population and Water
In the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Governments were committed to achieving the internationally agreed…
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Making Safe Motherhood a Reality in West Africa
For too long, efforts to reduce maternal mortality stalled, in part because the facts underlying the problem --and the best strategies to address it…
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Population, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
This publication highlights the importance of the ICPD Programme of Action, the discussions and subsequent experience and agreements as we mobilize…
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Second Meeting of the Working Group for the Prevention and Treatment of Obstetric Fistula
UNFPA leads a coalition of organizations committed to the prevention and treatment of fistula, an isolating disability that results from unrelieved…
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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), arising from the Millennium Summit in September 2000, are the overarching development objectives of the…
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