calendar_today 09 May 2014

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…

calendar_today 28 April 2014

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…

calendar_today 24 April 2014

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…

calendar_today 10 April 2014

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…

calendar_today 27 March 2014

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…

calendar_today 26 March 2014

News

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…

calendar_today 17 March 2014

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…

calendar_today 13 March 2014

Address changing household structures - a feature article

Household structures are changing and so are household compositions - this is one of the key findings of a global review of how United Nations member states, as signatories to…

calendar_today 12 March 2014

Zeroing in on the Needs of Women and Young People – World AIDS Day 2013 Statement by UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin

Today, as we mark World AIDS Day, we can point to significant progress in the global response to the epidemic on the road to reaching the goals of zero new infections, zero…