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      • Happily Strung Along: In Senegal, Women Count Beads as Contraception
      • Childless No Longer: Addressing Infertility and Miscarriage in Jordan
      • Ecuador: Meeting the Needs of Indigenous Women
      • Volunteers on Bicycles Bring Health Care to Senegal
      • New Plan to Save Women's Lives in Laos
      • Cultural Dimensions of Safe Childbirth in Thailand
      • Problems in 'Paradise': Addressing Reproductive Health in the Pacific Islands
      • Malawi: Rolling Back Maternal Deaths Through Community Involvement
      • Double Duty: Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health in Papua New Guinea
      • Voices of Midwives: On the Front Lines to Save Mothers' Lives
      • A Bumpy Ride Can Mean the Difference between Life and Death in Guatemala
      • Darfur Women Fear Nighttime Labor Without Midwife Support
      • Volunteers on Bicycles Bring Health Care to Rural Senegal
      • Building a Safer Road to Vietnam
      • Providing Maternal Health Care in Ecuador's Amazon Region
      • UNFPA Provides Nigerian Hospitals with Equipment and Supplies
      • Georgia's Mobile Teams Improve Reproductive Health and Save Lives
      • Pioneering Change for Women’s Health in Viet Nam
      • Nepal Ceasefire Allows Mobile Team to Care for Women's Health
      • Half of the World's Women Still Lack Access to Skilled Care at Childbirth
      • Pakistan: Female Medical Teams Reach More Women Post Earthquake
      • Safemotherhood in Rural Indonesia
      • Niger's Famine Increases Miscarriages and Premature Births
      • Maternal Health is Urgent Priority
      • VCT Clinics Follow "Risk Map" in Egypt
      • Sierra Leone Women Protect Themselves Against HIV
      • Zimbabwe's Biggest Battle - HIV/AIDS
      • Youth Centers Address Needs of Vietnamese Youths
      • Brazil Curbs Feminization of HIV/AIDS
      • Soap Operas to Promote Social Change Around the World
      • Progress and Challenges for Women in Thailand
      • Fistula Repair Facility Brings Hope to the Outcast
      • Fistula Advocates Visit Capitol Hill: Maternal Mortality Resolution Passes House
      • Helping to End Fistula is Easy as Riding a Bike
      • Voices of Fistula Survivors
      • Healing Fistula, Restoring Hope in Nigeria
      • Delivering Hope to Women With Fistula in Niger
      • Fact Sheet: Traumatic Fistula
      • HPV Vaccine: Major Impact on Cervical Cancer
      • Preventing HIV on Mexico's 'Forgotten Border'
      • Taking It to the Streets: Bringing HIV Prevention and Treatment to the Vulnerable Communities in Côte d'Ivoire
      • Protecting their Own: Youth Volunteers in Senegal are a Force for Health
      • Banking on the Future: Micro-Credit Leads to Macro-Changes in Tajikistan
      • World Aids Day 2007
      • VCT Clinics Follow "Risk Map" in Egypt
      • Concerns of a Pregnant Mother in War-Torn Sri Lanka
      • Barber Shops and Beauty Salons Promote HIV Education in Guyana
      • Banking on the Future: Micro-Credit Leads to Macro-Change in Tajikistan
      • Bolivia: Training Midwives to Treat Indigenous Mothers with Respect
      • Meeting the Women’s Health Needs of Myanmar’s Cyclone Survivors
      • Finding Ways to Deliver for Women where Doctors are in Short Supply
      • Promoting the Female Condom in Zimbabwe
      • Bringing an End to Maternal Death in Thailand
      • Waiting to Give Birth Among Rubble and Disaster Victims
      • Overcrowded Hospital Wards: Performing Caesarean Sections on a Park Bench
        • Haiti: Hungry and Homeless: Pregnant Women Seek Safe Births in Devastated City
      • Vietnam: Women Cope With Climate Change
      • UNFPA Supports Health Services for Resettled Women in Northern Sri Lanka March 2010
      • Mobile Teams Assist Mongolian Mothers Endangered by ‘Dzud’ Natural Disaster
      • Addressing the unmet need for family planning in Ethiopia
      • From Trauma to Triumph: Gul Bano's Story
      • 50 Years after the Pill, More than 200 Million Women Still Lack Access to Contraception
      • New MDG Review: Falling Short on Efforts to Boost
      • Women Deliver: Empowered Women and Their Powerful Stories
      • ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ – Musician amplify the call to end poverty by 2015
      • UNFPA Responds to of Victims of Kyrgyzstan Fighting
      • Global Health Initiative
      • UNFPA Delivers Essential Supplies to Kyrgyzstan
      • The Girls Protection Act: Cracking down on FGM
      • UNFPA Rushes Delivery and Hygiene Supplies to Flood-Affected Communities in Pakistan
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      • Dadaab Population Swells as Hungry and Weary Families Arrive from Somalia
      • Horn of Africa Famine
      • Horn of Africa - Saving a Girl in Dadaab From More Suffering
      • Heeding the Call: A Tunisian Midwife Becomes a Humanitarian Worker
      • Bangladeshi Mothers Get Vital Care During Childbirth
      • Encouraging Expectant Mothers in Dadaab to Take Advantage of Obstretric Care
      • Smile Clinics Benefit Haitian Mothers
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      • Violence Plagues Darfur Women Searching for Firewood
      • Cambodian Women's Crisis Center: Supporting Victims of Violence
      • New Law Increases Penalty for Rape in Liberia
      • Eradicating FGM/FGC
      • First Center Against Violence in Kabul
      • Responding to Sexual Violence in Darfur
      • Curbing Sexual Violence at a Time of Political Turmoil
      • 10 Country Study: Community-Based Programs Can Halt Violence Against Women
      • Gender-Based Violence Still Worldwide Problem
      • De-Linking FGM/FGC from Islam in North East Kenya
      • A Safe Haven for Girls
      • Ethiopian Early Marriage Project
      • Adult Education Offers Options to Iranian Women
      • Global Initiative to End Early Marriage
      • Camp Clinics Give Displaced Pakistani Women Lifesaving Pregnancy Care
      • Preventing Domestic Violence in Brazil
      • Micro-financing improves the status of the women in Nepal
      • Beatrice Chelangat Women’s Rights Champion
      • Convincing Egyptian Doctors to 'Do No Harm'
      • A Different Kind of Graduation in South Lebanon
      • Abandoning Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
      • Ending Harmful Practices through Community-led Social Change in Senegal
      • Taking FGC/FGC Out of the Cultural Mosaic of Kenya
      • 2010 State of the World Population
      • Helping Rape and Torture Survivors in Bosnia and Herzegovina
      • november 2010 16 days
      • Preventing Teenage Pregnancy in Ecuador
      • 'School for Husbands’ Encourages Nigerien Men to Improve the Health of Their Families
      • 022312 February Renewal Story
      • 031212 Severe Floods in Philippines
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      • $60 Million in Funding to UNFPA Approved by House Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations
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      • SOWP SWP Press Release October 2010
      • Americans for UNFPA welcomes announcement of next Executive Director
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      • Republican House of Representatives on Family Planning: No for Women and YES to Horses
      • Karen Bryant, Seattle Storm; Dawn Lepore, drugstore.com and Yvette Mulongo, healthcare advocate from the Democratic Republic of Congo to be Honored in Seattle on International Women's Day
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      • Valerie DeFillipo, lifelong activist for the health and rights of women, appointed as President of Americans for UNFPA, the U.S. National Committee for the United Nations Population Fund
      • Executive Director of Sierra Leone's Women in Crisis Movement Receives International Recognition for Collaboration with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund
      • 2011 Gala Co-Chair: Beth Comstock
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      • 2011 Gala Co-Chair: Dr. Mary Lake Polan
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      • Niger's Famine Increases Miscarriage
      • Emergency Health Needs for Women in Lebanon and Syria
      • Darfur: Haija's Refugee Story
      • Sierra Leone Women Protect Themselves Against HIV
      • Contraception Can Save Lives in Humanitarian Emergencies
      • Women's Need Crucial in Pakistan's Disaster Relief
      • Humanitarian Relief Post-Tsunami
      • Tackling the Taboo Topic of Teen Pregnancy in Ghana
      • Happily Strung Along: In Senegal, Women Count Beads as Contraception
      • Childless No Longer: Addressing Infertility and Miscarriage in Jordan
      • Ecuador: Meeting the Needs of Indigenous Women
      • Volunteers on Bicycles Bring Health Care to Senegal
      • New Plan to Save Women's Lives in Laos
      • Cultural Dimensions of Safe Childbirth in Thailand
      • Problems in 'Paradise': Addressing Reproductive Health in the Pacific Islands
      • Malawi: Rolling Back Maternal Deaths Through Community Involvement
      • Double Duty: Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health in Papua New Guinea
      • Voices of Midwives: On the Front Lines to Save Mothers' Lives
      • A Bumpy Ride Can Mean the Difference between Life and Death in Guatemala
      • Darfur Women Fear Nighttime Labor Without Midwife Support
      • Volunteers on Bicycles Bring Health Care to Rural Senegal
      • Building a Safer Road to Vietnam
      • Providing Maternal Health Care in Ecuador's Amazon Region
      • UNFPA Provides Nigerian Hospitals with Equipment and Supplies
      • Georgia's Mobile Teams Improve Reproductive Health and Save Lives
      • Pioneering Change for Women’s Health in Viet Nam
      • Nepal Ceasefire Allows Mobile Team to Care for Women's Health
      • Half of the World's Women Still Lack Access to Skilled Care at Childbirth
      • Pakistan: Female Medical Teams Reach More Women Post Earthquake
      • Safemotherhood in Rural Indonesia
      • Niger's Famine Increases Miscarriages and Premature Births
      • Maternal Health is Urgent Priority
      • VCT Clinics Follow "Risk Map" in Egypt
      • Sierra Leone Women Protect Themselves Against HIV
      • Zimbabwe's Biggest Battle - HIV/AIDS
      • Youth Centers Address Needs of Vietnamese Youths
      • Brazil Curbs Feminization of HIV/AIDS
      • Soap Operas to Promote Social Change Around the World
      • Progress and Challenges for Women in Thailand
      • Fistula Repair Facility Brings Hope to the Outcast
      • Fistula Advocates Visit Capitol Hill: Maternal Mortality Resolution Passes House
      • Helping to End Fistula is Easy as Riding a Bike
      • Voices of Fistula Survivors
      • Healing Fistula, Restoring Hope in Nigeria
      • Delivering Hope to Women With Fistula in Niger
      • Fact Sheet: Traumatic Fistula
      • HPV Vaccine: Major Impact on Cervical Cancer
      • Preventing HIV on Mexico's 'Forgotten Border'
      • Taking It to the Streets: Bringing HIV Prevention and Treatment to the Vulnerable Communities in Côte d'Ivoire
      • Protecting their Own: Youth Volunteers in Senegal are a Force for Health
      • Banking on the Future: Micro-Credit Leads to Macro-Changes in Tajikistan
      • World Aids Day 2007
      • VCT Clinics Follow "Risk Map" in Egypt
      • Concerns of a Pregnant Mother in War-Torn Sri Lanka
      • Barber Shops and Beauty Salons Promote HIV Education in Guyana
      • Banking on the Future: Micro-Credit Leads to Macro-Change in Tajikistan
      • Bolivia: Training Midwives to Treat Indigenous Mothers with Respect
      • Meeting the Women’s Health Needs of Myanmar’s Cyclone Survivors
      • Finding Ways to Deliver for Women where Doctors are in Short Supply
      • Promoting the Female Condom in Zimbabwe
      • Bringing an End to Maternal Death in Thailand
      • Waiting to Give Birth Among Rubble and Disaster Victims
      • Overcrowded Hospital Wards: Performing Caesarean Sections on a Park Bench
        • Haiti: Hungry and Homeless: Pregnant Women Seek Safe Births in Devastated City
      • Vietnam: Women Cope With Climate Change
      • UNFPA Supports Health Services for Resettled Women in Northern Sri Lanka March 2010
      • Mobile Teams Assist Mongolian Mothers Endangered by ‘Dzud’ Natural Disaster
      • Addressing the unmet need for family planning in Ethiopia
      • From Trauma to Triumph: Gul Bano's Story
      • 50 Years after the Pill, More than 200 Million Women Still Lack Access to Contraception
      • New MDG Review: Falling Short on Efforts to Boost
      • Women Deliver: Empowered Women and Their Powerful Stories
      • ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ – Musician amplify the call to end poverty by 2015
      • UNFPA Responds to of Victims of Kyrgyzstan Fighting
      • Global Health Initiative
      • UNFPA Delivers Essential Supplies to Kyrgyzstan
      • The Girls Protection Act: Cracking down on FGM
      • UNFPA Rushes Delivery and Hygiene Supplies to Flood-Affected Communities in Pakistan
      • Pak Emergency Update
      • Pak Emergency Update 9-2010
      • Together We're Empowering the World's Poorest Women
      • Female Leaders Pave the Path for the Malawi’s Women
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      • Stories of Mothers Saved: Afghanistan
      • Mothers Saved: Haiti
      • Mothers Saved: Malawi
      • Mothers Saved: Rwanda
      • Haiti Cholera
      • indonesia volcano
      • indonesia puppets
      • To be a Woman in Nepal
      • Shining Light on the Problem of Gender-Based Violence in Haiti’s Camps
      • Independence: Birth of — and in — a New Nation
      • Dadaab Population Swells as Hungry and Weary Families Arrive from Somalia
      • Horn of Africa Famine
      • Horn of Africa - Saving a Girl in Dadaab From More Suffering
      • Heeding the Call: A Tunisian Midwife Becomes a Humanitarian Worker
      • Bangladeshi Mothers Get Vital Care During Childbirth
      • Encouraging Expectant Mothers in Dadaab to Take Advantage of Obstretric Care
      • Smile Clinics Benefit Haitian Mothers
      • 022312 February Renewal Story
      • 031212 Severe Floods in Philippines
      • 031212 Sudan - Campaign against Cutting
      • 031312 Ethiopia - Calls to End FGM
      • 031412 UK Gov't, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
      • 031512 Thirteen Ways of Delivering for Rural Women
      • 040612 So Many Mouths to Feed
      • 040612 Learning to Love the Female Condom
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      • 041712 Mother's Day Engagement Piece
      • 042712 Don't Forget the Girls
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      • Addressing Harmful Traditions in a Refugee Camp in Chad
      • South Africa: Supporting survivors and holding perpetrators accountable
      • Violence Plagues Darfur Women Searching for Firewood
      • Cambodian Women's Crisis Center: Supporting Victims of Violence
      • New Law Increases Penalty for Rape in Liberia
      • Eradicating FGM/FGC
      • First Center Against Violence in Kabul
      • Responding to Sexual Violence in Darfur
      • Curbing Sexual Violence at a Time of Political Turmoil
      • 10 Country Study: Community-Based Programs Can Halt Violence Against Women
      • Gender-Based Violence Still Worldwide Problem
      • De-Linking FGM/FGC from Islam in North East Kenya
      • A Safe Haven for Girls
      • Ethiopian Early Marriage Project
      • Adult Education Offers Options to Iranian Women
      • Global Initiative to End Early Marriage
      • Camp Clinics Give Displaced Pakistani Women Lifesaving Pregnancy Care
      • Preventing Domestic Violence in Brazil
      • Micro-financing improves the status of the women in Nepal
      • Beatrice Chelangat Women’s Rights Champion
      • Convincing Egyptian Doctors to 'Do No Harm'
      • A Different Kind of Graduation in South Lebanon
      • Abandoning Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
      • Ending Harmful Practices through Community-led Social Change in Senegal
      • Taking FGC/FGC Out of the Cultural Mosaic of Kenya
      • 2010 State of the World Population
      • Helping Rape and Torture Survivors in Bosnia and Herzegovina
      • november 2010 16 days
      • Preventing Teenage Pregnancy in Ecuador
      • 'School for Husbands’ Encourages Nigerien Men to Improve the Health of Their Families
      • 022312 February Renewal Story
      • 031212 Severe Floods in Philippines
      • 031212 Sudan - Campaign against Cutting
      • 031312 Ethiopia - Calls to End FGM
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