Updates

France commits 1.5 million dollars to UNFPA to empower survivors of gender-based violence in Iraq

09 Feb 2022

The new agreement with France will allow UNFPA to create three women protection centres for women survivors of violence in Iraq and support one women's shelter. © UNFPA Iraq
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In Sudan, a UNFPA hospital helps women give birth safely despite flooding crisis

Health workers at the UNFPA Tunaydbah field hospital in Sudan’s eastern Gedaraf state provide critical maternal health care amid floods, conflict and an ongoing refugee crisis. © UNFPA Sudan
  • 17 January 2023
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Publication

Adolescent Empowerment at Scale: Successes and challenges of an evidence-based approach to young women’s programming in Africa

Number of pages: 12

Publication date: 01 Feb 2023

Publisher: BRAC and UNFPA

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Resources

WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations - TRS 1044

Resource date: Jan 2023

Author: UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit

Publisher: WHO

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As drought tightens its grip on Kenya, a motorcycle ambulance is helping women to access critical health care

The motorcycle ambulance has significantly reduced the time required to deliver essential and urgent medical assistance to local communities.© UNFPA/Luis Tato
  • 12 January 2023
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What does it mean to live in a world of 8 billion people, and counting?

Midwives Lucie Banionia and Lydie Mawelo help deliver the future at the General Reference Hospital in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the world's fastest-growing countries. © UNFPA/Junior Mayindu
  • 11 January 2023
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News

Severe drought fuels malnutrition and reduces hospital deliveries among pregnant women in Kenya’s Turkana County

Health workers attend to pregnant and breastfeeding mothers at an outreach visit supported by UNFPA in Loima Sub-county. © UNFPA/Luis Tato
  • 27 December 2022
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“A dream to achieve”: Making Myanmar more disability-inclusive

With support from UNFPA and a local disability organization, Sabai received vocational and business skill training. ©UNFPA Myanmar/Thein Zaw Win
  • 05 January 2023
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News

8 reasons for hope in the new year

Leticia Souza Bezerra, 29, is a teacher and mother of two from Brazil's Macuxi indigenous group. Ms. Bezerra turned to UNFPA after learning of a programme that helps women gain access to the right contraception for them. She explained that choosing her own birth control was important for her bodily autonomy and deciding how many children to have, which in turn enabled her to better care for them while also pursuing other dreams. © Newsha Tavakolian/Magnum Photos for UNFPA
  • 21 December 2022
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8 demographic trends for a world of 8 billion people

Published on: 29/12/2022

Discover the 8 demographic trends that will shape the world as the global population continues to grow.

Learn more here.

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