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30 March 2015
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African Ministers and partners underscored need for immediate action to harness the Demographic Dividend for the African Union Agenda 2063
Addis Ababa, 29 March 2015.Ministers from Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, and South Africa who spoke at the half-day High-Level Ministerial Dialogue on Harnessing the Demographic…
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16 October 2015
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African Ministers and partners underscored need for immediate action to harness the Demographic Dividend for the African Union Agenda 2063
Africa who spoke at the half-day High-Level Ministerial Dialogue on Harnessing the Demographic Dividend for Agenda 2063 underscored the need to take concrete and immediate actions…
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24 March 2015
Chad: National Campaign to End Child Marriage Takes off
The national campaign to end child marriage - “All together, let’s put an end to the Marriage of Children” - was launched on 14 March 2015 at the Presidential Palace under the…
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16 March 2015
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Nigeria: Japan partners UNFPA with a grant aid of USD 2.3 million to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services in the North East
The USD 2.3 million grant to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund was allocated on 4 March 2015 by the Government of Japan to reduce maternal mortality, morbidity from sexual…
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22 February 2015
African Governments set course for a reliable civil registration and vital statistics at the service of good governance
The 3rd Conference of African Ministers responsible for Civil Registration organized by the African Union (AU) and the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), with the support of…
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13 February 2015
Press Release
$56 Million Needed to Provide Services in Ebola-affected Countries to Avoid Maternal Death Toll of Civil Wars Years
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 12 February 2015—More than $56 million is urgently needed to provide vital reproductive, maternal and newborn health services in Guinea, Liberia and…
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03 February 2015
Press Release
Leaving No One Behind: Building Resilience in West and Central Africa for more than 2 million IDPs in 11 countries
SIDO, Chad. The Republic of Chad hosted on December 3, 2015, the regional launch of the 2015 State of World Population Report at Sido, in the Moyen-Chari Region and at the border…
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14 January 2015
Fight against Ebola in Mali: The essential role of health workers posted at Bamako airport
Bamako, Mali. Since December 2014, the ritual in Bamako-Senou International Airport is the same. All passengers departing and arriving are subject to temperature screening…
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29 December 2014
Guinea-Conakry: The Introduction of the Mobile Application "CommCare" in Ebola Contact Tracing and Information Management Related to Patients
Conakry, Guinea. “CommCare” technology has been chosen to support the implementation of the Government Response Plan against the Ebola Virus Disease in order to obtain timely and…
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