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2014 and beyond - an Opinion-Editorial
WHAT major event do you remember from 1994 - your first job or child perhaps? For the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), it is a defining year on our timeline because 179 governments signed the... Read more
Paying in advance - an Opinion-Editorial
REPRESENTING 149 countries and 2200 organisations, 4500 participants and 411 (mainstream) journalists converged in Malaysia last week to regroup and strengthen individual and political commitments... Read more
Women should not die giving life - an article on maternal mortality
Whatever you've decided will fill your current 24 hours, 800 women will die within that same hour from pregnancy or childbirth complications; that's 33 women dying every hour from conditions that... Read more
Health access for all - affirming universal access to reproductive health
FIFTEEN Pacific Island nations including Papua New Guinea have reaffirmed their commitment to achieving universal access to reproductive health through continuing work with the United Nations... Read more
Demystify topics surrounding sexual health, UNFPA staff urged
UNFPA Pacific, Suva (Fiji) April 24, 2014 - The management and staff of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific Sub-Regional Office have been encouraged to apply concepts of social... Read more
A UNFPA Pacific humanitarian response in the Solomon Islands
The rising water level after three days of consistent heavy rainfall snuck up on Honiara families in the Solomon Islands from accounts of survivors, most of who remain in evacuation centres today... Read more
Celebrated footprints - a feature article on the link between climate change and population dynamics
IN 2008, 1500 residents of Carteret Islands, a group of atolls of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG), had to be relocated becoming the world's first community to be... Read more
Capitalizing on our demographic dividend - a feature article
UNFPA Pacific, March 27 (2014) Suva - COUNTRIES blessed with sizeable youth population bases, like most of our Pacific island nations whose young people comprise a third of their population, must... Read more
Final note from Dirk - an Opinion-Editorial by UNFPA Pacific Director and Representative Dirk Jena
ONE of my favourite memories as far as contraceptives are concerned is joining a queue at a store for some condoms outside my university - while my girlfriend who is now my wife of 32 years waited... Read more
It's all about choice - an Opinion-Editorial
THIS month (April) marks an important milestone for the United Nations family - we have less than 1000 days to the deadline of achieving the eight millennium development goals or MDGs; all UN member... Read more