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Daw Khu Li village, Deemawsoe township, Kayah state. Health volunteers like Mi Myar are trained to spot and attend to minor ailments such as headaches, stomach aches, coughs and colds, alongside more serious complaints such as high blood pressure and signs and symptoms of malaria. More than 1,800 trained and trusted volunteers are serving their communities and showing how very simple changes in behaviour, like using a mosquito net, maintaining a clean home and seeking medical help when you feel unwell, can make a huge difference.
Photo: Christian Aid/Kaung Htet
A lady doctor is attending patients in a tent of UNFPA Mobile service unit (MSU), Mansehra, North West Frontier Province.
©AsadZaidi/UNFPA
Staff members of the Association de Lutte contre les Violences faites aux Femmes (ALVF - Association for the Struggle Against Violence Against Women) hold up French-language reproductive health diagrams. ALVF began in Yaoundé, Cameroun, but in just over a decade, ALVF has grown from a single office that provided a safe space for women survivors of violence to a national group that manages outreach centers for women in three different regions of the country.
For more information on ALVF's work and how the International Women's Health Coalition supports them, click here: www.iwhc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&a...
14 April 2009 - N'Djamena, Chad - UN Volunteer Filippo Busconi speaks to former fistula patient Madjibeye Felicité outside the store of the Association pour la reinsertion sociale des femmes victimes de la fistule (Association for the social reintegration of women victims of fistula). The former fistula patients, many of them rejected by their communities, live together and produce crafts and textiles and sell them to support themselves.
A building destroyed by Tropical Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu. UNFPA secured $241,000 through the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to ensure the life-saving continuity of sexual and reproductive health services in affected provinces
Daw Khu Li village, Deemawsoe township, Kayah state. Mi Myar’s intervention means Ku Saw Reh is now on the road to recovery. The earlier signs and symptoms of illness are picked up, the sooner patients can be treated and nursed back to full health.
Photo: Christian Aid/Kaung Htet
A Woman Medical Officer giving away new born baby kit (NBBK) to a mother in Women & Children Hospital, Bannu.
©AsadZaidi/UNFPA
Daw Khu Li village, Deemawsoe township, Kayah state. Alongside mosquito nets, rapid diagnostic kits are an invaluable piece of equipment. Where people are showing the signs and symptoms of malaria, a simple blood test means cases of malaria can be detected earlierand medication prescribed sooner. A rapid diagnosis means a rapid response.
Photo: Christian Aid/Kaung Htet
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
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Women in a health centre in the Philippines
© The Global Fund / John Rae
Preventing HIV Transmission around the world
Meet more women and children with direct experience of preventing HIV transmission in three new videos launched today. We’re bringing you more insights into the lives of people who work on the front line of healthcare, who are taking steps to ensure their children are born HIV free; as well as those who are affected by AIDS.
Meet Priya in India. She’s a health worker and describes the happiness felt by families who follow her health advice when their child is born free of HIV. She herself is HIV positive and is able to encourage others through personal experience.
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Watch orphans playing a local version of ‘ring o’roses’ in Malawi, a country with more than half a million orphans due to AIDS. Some are helped through the SASO community organization which feeds and educates young children and teaches them to respect each other whether they have HIV or not.
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Share the experience of going for STI testing with pregnant women in the Philippines. They’re taking responsibility for their reproductive health so they can bear healthy children.
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This group of videos and slideshows is part of our Born HIV Free multimedia gallery and we’re adding new compelling stories all the time. Look out for the ones you may have missed in our Video section or on our YouTube channel.
All the people you see featured benefit from programs financed by the Global Fund. If you show your support to the ‘Born HIV Free’ campaign by signing up, we can make sure that more of these kinds of programs get funding.
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Photo: Women in Antananarivo listen to a presentation on family planning options from a mobile clinic. Credit: USAID / A.G. Klei.
The current law governing reproductive health and family planning in Madagascar remains the old French law of 1920 which represses all activities for the promotion of "contraceptives", and prohibits all advertising for contraception. The government of Madagascar, with its health partners, considering international and national commitments to contribute effectively to the reduction of maternal mortality through an improved access to reproductive health and family planning services and products, decided to draft a law setting out the general rules governing reproductive health and family planning.
After more than a year of preparation with various stakeholders (including the Ministries of Health, Justice, Population, Youth and Sport, all PTFs...), the draft law was submitted to the government of Madagascar’s Council (led by Prime Minister) for approval. That approval was received last week and the draft law will now be submitted to the Ministers’ Council (led by President) for approval with the hope of moving to the National Assembly before their adjournment. The law will significantly improve access to FP/Reproductive Health (RH) services by youth.
On April 17, 2018, the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) celebrated its 2018 Annual Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. IWHC recognized the work of renowned human rights champion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who received the IWHC Visionary Leadership Award; and Kenyan activist Monica Oguttu, Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), who received the Joan B. Dunlop Award.
Pictured: David Knott (left) and IWHC President Françoise Girard (right).
Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for IWHC
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Jessa Gonzales,19, gave birth in Casiguran District Hospital in the province of Aurora in Central Philippines a day after Typhoon Koppu made landfall in her town on 18 October 2015. The hospital was badly damaged during the typhoon and deliveries had to take place in the emergency room. UNFPA will donate reproductive health kits to refurbish damaged and destroyed equipment in the hospital’s delivery room.
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
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What fashion is complete without a female condom warrior shield? Credits: Lindsey Trimble (model and accessory designer) and Jennifer Arnold (clothing, shield, and hair designer), both of Eudora and Pearl boutique.
Photo: PATH/Danny Ngan.
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Creep Suzette of Tilted Thunder Rail Birds roller derby league flutters down the runway in an FC2® female condom dress made by Muthaa Community Development Foundation of Kenya.
Photo: PATH/Danny Ngan.
Oral contraception. The oral contraceptive pill contains synthetic versions of one or both of the female sex hormones responsible for ovulation (production of an egg, or ovum). The pill acts to suppress ovulation and causes changes to the uterus (womb) to prevent fertilisation and pregnancy. The pills are taken daily for three weeks, with a break in the fourth week for menstruation.
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Afroza Banu works at a health center in Nayapara Rohingya refugee camp June 27, 2018 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Allison Joyce/UNFPA
On April 17, 2018, the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) celebrated its 2018 Annual Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. IWHC recognized the work of renowned human rights champion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who received the IWHC Visionary Leadership Award; and Kenyan activist Monica Oguttu, Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), who received the Joan B. Dunlop Award.
Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for IWHC
Kiribati: With hospitals often struggling with the challenges of funding, regular flooding events and a host of public health problems, maternal health is an important investment that can be overlooked and under-resourced. UNFPA's engagement with government health partners creates a dialogue about essential equipment and planning for emergencies.
@UNFPA/Carly Learson
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
This is Sabita Khadka, a midwife in Nepal who is working tirelessly during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide quality care to pregnant women and new mothers.
Photo © UNFPA Nepal
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...