In spite of the fact that the Ukraine war has taken the shine out of the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, another…
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President Muhammadu Buhari today in Abuja launched the Revised National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development, stressing the need for…
With the worsening gender-based violence in Nepal occasioned by the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and…
Conflict and displacement have produced a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, and a grim set of numbers. More than four million…
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its concerned partners are currently battling to curb the worrisome deaths of pregnant women…
Founder, and President of Women Everywhere Can Lead (WE), Isha Sesay, has joined the sexual and reproductive health agency of…
For months, 73-year-old widow, Maria Roșca, has been alone. She has not left home since the COVID-19 lockdown began. She…
Latest reports indicate at least 160 fatalities and around 6,000 wounded, with 21 still missing. This figure is likely to…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is current assisting Morocco to fight the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic with “SALAMA at Work”…
In Uganda, Betty Nagadya is making waves with a novel kind of clothing song. When she walks through the trading…
The Chieftainess of the Chewa people in Zambia’s Eastern Province, Kawaza, is seriously challenging harmful social norms in her community.…
Health workers in many West African countries say it has been challenging to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while providing…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says gender-based violence is a pandemic within COVID-19 pandemic. Re-amplifying the position of the…
The full toll of COVID-19 catastrophe has been incalculably greater. But officially, the pandemic has sickened 12 million people and…
More than 1,000 women in Nepal have been provided implants in seven weeks. In this country, service providers often go…
Programmes designed to end child marriage and female genital mutilation(FGM) are facing serious delays in implementation as a result of…
The flagship 2020 State of World Population report, by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has painted an ugly picture of…
The absence of timely medical treatment in developing countries is spurring a dramatic increase in obstetric fistula, a serious childbirth…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, the vulnerabilities and barriers faced…
Afro-Honduran and indigenous communities are joining efforts to contain the spread of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. Working with the United…
The authorities are providing free transportation for pregnant women visiting hospitals in Antananarivo and Toamasina in Madagascar. To gesture is…
Four years ago, Meryem, a Syrian refugee fled the grinding conflict in their home country, Syria, with her family to…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says expectant mothers around the world are living in a kind of limbo, suspended…
Significant levels of lockdown-related disruption over six months could lead to a projected seven million unintended pregnancies. It could also…
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are co-leading the COVID-19 surveillance effort and the coordination…
For many women around the world, safety from the coronavirus pandemic is not safety from violence. Countries facing lockdowns and…
Maternal health experts are concerned about the impact the coronavirus crisis could have on expectant and new mothers in Bangladesh. …
Twenty-eight-year-old Aisha Hussain Sibtan was not able to access antenatal care during her second pregnancy. Why? She lives on the…
As the coronavirus pandemic rages around the world, women and girls are more vulnerable to abuse than ever, says a UN agency. …
The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, has expressed increasing concern about the women and girls trapped in…