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Annual Report
The UNFPA Annual Report 2006 highlights UNFPA’s efforts throughout the year assisting 154 developing and transition countries and territories to empower women and men to make the choices necessary to improve their lives, improve reproductive and sexual health, reduce maternal death, promote HIV prevention, address unmet needs for family planning, advance effective population policies and alleviate poverty.
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Annual Report
The UNFPA Annual Report 2005 showcases efforts by Fund to improve reproductive health, ensure safe motherhood, address population issues, prevent HIV and help people in crises. The report highlights examples of UNFPA's work in each of these fields--demonstrating how it is making a difference in the lives of individuals and families in every region of the world. It also presents facts and figures about our work, including details of the contributions that UNFPA received from a record 172 donor countries in 2005, and on the kinds of projects that are supported by this generous funding.
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Third Stocktaking Report, 2008
This joint stocktaking report highlights the importance of knowing the features of different AIDS epidemics in order to contain or reverse them. It argues for expanded paediatric AIDS testing and treatment as well as prevention of mother-to-child transmission and new infections among adolescents and young people. It also advocates for expanded protection and care for the approximately 15 million children globally who have lost either one or both of their parents due to AIDS, sparking greater attention to the needs of all vulnerable young.
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This report aims to create awareness among policy and decision makers, programmers and the general public on UNFPA's Special Youth Programme, a global youth-adult partnership initiative that recruits young people from developing countries to join the Fund for a nine-month remunerated fellowship. The assignment includes work both in its Headquarters in New York and its Country Offices around the world, with the purpose of building young people's capacities in the areas of UNFPA's mandate.
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The voices of young people from Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Nepal, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and many other countries affected by war have been brought together in this unique report.
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This publication, launched at the start of the Beijing at 10 review, highlights what UNFPA has done and is doing to support governments and civil society in each of the 12 critical areas of the Beijing Platform for Action.
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Young People Report on Progress Made on the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
Young people from 12 countries around the world report on their government's achievements in addressing the AIDS pandemic among young people, highlighting shortfalls and challenges in the process, and making specific recommendations to ensure that the targets set out in the Declaration of Commitment (2001) on HIV/AIDS are achieved.
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This publication highlights the ways in which young people remain at the centre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Noting that many young people are at high risk of HIV infection, the publication documents how they lack access to critical youth-friendly information, skills and services for the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and AIDS.
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Preventing HIV
Highlights of a groundbreaking initiative to support young leaders in their advocacy for increased access to information, education and services to help prevent HIV.
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More than 1 billion girls and boys around the world are in their second decade of life. About 85 per cent of these young people live in developing countries. Young people face enormous challenges to learn, form relationships, shape their
identities and acquire the social and practical skills they need to become active and productive adults. Adults, parents, decision makers and the world community at large have a moral and legal obligation to ensure the rights of adolescents and help them develop their strengths in a supportive
and safe environment.
This joint report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) reflects the activities of individual agencies around an issue of common concern. It focuses on 12 countries and territories: Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Jordan, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Russian Federation, Sao Tome and Principe and Senegal.
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Enabling Choices... Promoting Empowerment
The ICPD Programme of Action recognized education as a key factor in sustainable development and in the development of well-being through it's links with demographic as well as social factors. This publication provides an overview of how UNFPA integrates education activities in all its programs on population, reproductive health,gender and HIV/AIDS with an emphasis on the needs of
young people. It also highlights successful education programmes in selected countries."
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A Region in Transition
This most recent UNFPA publication gives an overview of the Asia and Pacific Region; provides a detailed analysis of some of the crucial issues facing the region - adolescent reproductive health, population ageing, rising spread of HIV/AIDS, gender discrimination, gender-based violence, situations of crisis; and highlights UNFPA's core interventions and major initiatives in each of these areas.
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UNFPA’s Contribution to the Goals of the World Summit for Children
This publication documents UNFPA's contribution to the goals of the World Summit for Children and its commitment to young people. This commitment, anchored in the ICPD Programme of Action, includes support in four major areas: girls' education, adolescent reproductive and sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and maternal mortality. Examples of UNFPA-funded projects in each of these areas are presented, as are strategies for moving forward.
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Youth Supplement: State of World Population 2008
This Youth Supplement to UNFPA's State of the World Population 2008 focuses on the interactions among culture, gender and human rights and the critical importance of culturally sensitive approaches for effective development policies and programmes. The report, which is the third in a series, addresses culture as it shapes and nurtures the lives of young people and shows how young people develop their own subcultures, which are often different from and may conflict with the dominant culture.
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State of World Population 2007: Youth Supplement
This is the second edition of the Youth Supplement to UNFPA’s State of World Population. The 2007 report focuses on urbanization; the Youth Supplement addresses the challenges and promises of urbanization as they affect young people. In 2008, for the first time, more than half of the world’s population will live in urban areas, and the number and proportion of urban young people is increasing dramatically. Most will be born into poor families, where fertility tends to be higher.
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State of World Population 2006: Youth Supplement
This report explores the lives of young women and young men who have ventured into new lands to chase their dreams or to escape oppression, war, poverty or misfortune. It profiles the lives of young women and men from ten countries – Burkina Faso, Colombia, India, Kenya, Liberia, Moldova, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Suriname and Zambia. Some have never migrated, but their lives are marked by the experiences of spouses or relatives who have moved abroad. They were interviewed by journalists Martin Caparros and Shyamala Shiveshwarkar in their countries of origin or destination.
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A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration
Today, half of all international migrants—95 million—are women and girls. Yet, despite substantial contributions to both their families at home and communities abroad, the needs of migrant women continue to be overlooked and ignored. The State of World Population 2006 report, A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration, examines the scope and breadth of female migration, the impact of the funds they send home to support families and communities, and their disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking, exploitation and abuse. The report reveals that although migrant women contribute billions of dollars in cash and services, policymakers continue to disregard both their contributions and their vulnerability—even though female migrants tend to send a much higher proportion of their lower earnings back home than their male counterparts.
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The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
How do we improve the lives of the nearly 3 billion individuals living on less than two dollars a day? How can we enable all individuals — male and female, young and old — to protect themselves from HIV? To save the lives of more than 500,000 women who die each year in childbirth? What will it take to show young people living in poverty that they have a stake in development and a hope for the future?
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The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and The Global Effort to End Poverty
This year's report, The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty, examines the progress countries have made and the obstacles they have encountered at the halfway point in implementing the ICPD plan.
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Making 1 Billion Count: Investing in Adolescents' Health and Rights
Some 1.2 billion people--one person in five--are between ages 10 and 19, the largest number of adolescents in history. Half of them are poor; one in four live in extreme poverty, on less than $1 a day. This year's State of the World Population report examines their condition, in the context of changing social norms and lifestyles, including weakening of family support systems, amid globalization and urbanization. The report provides country-specific examples of projects that combine life skills education, including sexuality education, and peer counselling with access to services and points out the high costs and social consequences of failing to adequately meet adolescents' reproductive health and rights.
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The New Generations
More young people than ever are entering their childbearing and working years. At the same time, the number and proportion of people over age 65 are increasing at an unprecedented rate. Our future will be shaped by how well families and societies meet the needs of these growing "new generations": education and health -- including reproductive health -- for the young, and social, medical and financial support for the elderly.
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Report Cards
These Report Cards are advocacy tools aimed at increasing and improving the programmatic, policy and funding actions taken on HIV prevention for girls and young women. Their key audiences are national, regional and international policy and decision-makers, and service providers.
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A Guide to Statistics on Young People in Poverty
Many national poverty reduction strategies overlook the needs of young people. Even where national strategies do have a youth focus, the analysis of their situation is limitedbecause little or no reference is made to readily available data. For those advocating on behalf of young people in poverty, considerable scope exists to make use of simple but reputable statistics to mount a strong case for Governments and civil society to allocate more resources for addressing poverty among this major population group.
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A Conceptual Framework and Suggested Outcome Indicators
This working paper, based on the work of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Community Involvement in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, presents a framework that links community involvement interventions to desired adolescent health outcomes. The publication includes a set of social change indicators as well as several case studies that evaluate relevant programming.
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Opening Doors with Young People: 4 Keys
UNFPA’s Framework for Action on Adolescents and Youth articulates a corporate strategy for working with Governments and partners in promoting the comprehensive development of young people worldwide. At a time when the global community is increasingly focused on poverty reduction and broader national development goals, the Framework outlines UNFPA’s policy and programme priorities on young people and its contributions with others to the development agenda.
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Pregnancy- and childbirth-related complications are the number-one killers of 15-19 year old girls worldwide. This report highlights the issue of adolescent pregnancy among married and unmarried adolescent girls (10-19 year olds), especially those living in poverty. It draws attention to current trends, as well as the social, economic, and health consequences of adolescent pregnancy not only for the girls themselves, but for their families and countries. The publication argues for strategic investments in the health, education, and livelihoods of adolescent girls to empower them to avoid the trap of becoming mothers while still children. It also examines how targeted investments will improve the prospects for pregnant girls and young mothers.
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A Training Manual
This easy-to-follow resource manual can help young women prepare and facilitate training sessions on a host of issues that are important to them. A joint publication of the World YWCA and UNFPA, the manual was developed by young women. It contains modules on young women's leadership, economic justice, HIV and AIDS, human rights, peace, self esteem and body image, sexual and reproductive health and violence against women.
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Tackling child marriage is a daunting but possible task, requiring political will and proactive multi-faceted strategies at the international, national and community levels. Ending Child Marriage: A Guide for Global Policy Action is part of a wider advocacy strategy to raise awareness on child marriage and its effects on communities.
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Generating the evidence base for policies and programmes for very young adolescents
Although they are at a formative and resilient stage of life, very young adolescents (ages 10-14) are often overlooked by policies and programmes.This guidance document and toolkit begins to address the lack of research and attention to this important subgroup of young people by compiling new data-gathering approaches, tools, and methodologies. The methodologies described in the guide are useful primarily for discovering which very young adolescents are most vulnerable, what their needs are, and whether they are being reached by existing programmes.
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AIDS is affecting women and girls in increasing numbers. Globally, women comprise almost 50% of the people living with HIV. Nearly 25 years into the epidemic, gender inequality and the low status of women remain two of the principal drivers of HIV. Yet, current AIDS responses do not, on the whole, tackle the social, cultural and economic factors that put women at risk of HIV, and that unduly burden them with the epidemic's consequences.
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In Brief: 2006 Series, No. 6
Three decades into the global AIDS pandemic, it is abundantly clear that enormous challenges remain, both in containing and reducing HIV infection rates and in helping people with HIV live longer, healthier lives. HIV prevention programmes must actively involve people living with HIV, working with them to decrease the risk of transmitting the virus to others while also making sure that HIV-negative people share in that responsibility.
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The Peer Education Toolkit is a group of resources designed to help program managers and master trainers of peer educators. Collectively, these tools should help develop and maintain more effective peer education programs. The five parts of the toolkit are based on research and evidence from the field as well as local examples and experiences. They are designed to be adapted locally as needed. The toolkit resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International. It was produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA.
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This guidance note is based on a UNFPA/WHO Technical Consultation on HPV Vaccines and Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes, held in March 2006 in Montreux, Switzerland. It is intended to alert a broad array of stakeholders -- in sexual and reproductive health, immunization, child and adolescent health, and cancer control programmes -- to some of the key issues surrounding the upcoming introduction of HPV vaccines against cervical cancer.
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A Systematic Review of the Evidence from Developing Countries
This book can provide a basis for evidence-informed programming and policies for youth. It offers a systematic review of the accumulated evidence, from two decades of programming, for the effectiveness of interventions to prevent the spread of HIV among young people in developing countries. Using a standard methodology, authors reviewed the evidence from 80 studies of interventions delivered that reach young people .
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The first systematic review of what works to prevent HIV infection among young people in developing countries: A Summary of the WHO Technical Report Series No 938
This report provides a systematic review the effectiveness of interventions provided: through schools, health services, mass media, communities, and to young people who are most vulnerable to HIV infection.
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A Summary of the WHO Technical Report Series No 938
This report provides evidence based recommendations for policy-makers, programme managers and researchers to guide efforts towards meeting the UN goals on HIV/AIDS and young people. These goals aim to decrease prevalence and vulnerability; and to increase access to information, skills and services.
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Research Report on Qualitative Findings from Brazil, Ethiopia and the Ukraine
This research report explores the sexual and reproductive health intentions and needs of HIV positive women and adolescent girls in Brazil, Ethiopia and the Ukraine and probes issues relating to family planning, sexually transmitted infections, breast and cervical cancer, maternity care services and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission as well as issues of access and quality of care.
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Guidelines on care, treatment and support for women living with HIV/AIDS and their children in resource-constrained settings
The sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV/AIDS is fundamental to their well-being and that of their partners and children. This publication addresses the specific sexual and reproductive health needs of women living with HIV/AIDS and contains recommendations for counselling, antiretroviral therapy, care and other interventions.
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As part of a National Poverty Reduction Strategy
This paper focuses on national efforts to reduce poverty and presents seven arguments for why national public policy makers should give more attention to young people, if these efforts are to be successful.
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Selected Papers of the UNFPA Expert Group Meeting
The growing interest in and visibility of international migration and the 5-year review of progress towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals provided UNFPA with a good opportunity to convene recently an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) to analyze the interface between International Migration and the MDGs. This report is a compilation of selected papers presented at the meeting.
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National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994-2004
This Global Survey includes responses from 169 countries on the steps they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action, including measures related to population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.
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National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994 - 2004
A summary of the Global Survey that includes responses from 169 countries on the measures they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action in the fields of population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.
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A Compendium
This Compendium, published by UNFPA and Margaret Sanger Center International, is the result of a comprehensive mapping effort of programme-planning materials and training resources for HIV prevention among young people. Curricula, training manuals, guidelines, toolkits, reports and other resources are catalogued in this Compendium, available in printed format and CD Rom, with information on where these resources can be found.
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UNFPA Response 2003
Previously known as AIDS Update, this is the 12th annual publication to provide information
about actions taken by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to prevent HIV infection.
UNFPA has worked to improve reproductive health for more than 30 years; never has the need been more urgent. UNFPA is at the forefront of international prevention efforts, integrating HIV prevention throughout all reproductive health services. Young people, especially if poor, are at great risk: nearly half of all new infections occur between the ages of 15 and 24. UNFPA supports programmes that provide the knowledge, skills and services young people need in order to protect their reproductive health and prevent HIV infection.
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Preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents is a challenging task that touches upon several controversial policy and cultural issues. Nevertheless, it is an absolutely crucial task, as more and more young people are being infected with the deadly virus each day. As several countries have shown, effective prevention programming includes integrating advocacy, behaviour change communication and educational strategies with other policy and service components. This manual focuses on HIV prevention throughintegrated communication programming that blends advocacy, behaviour change communication and education interventions.
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This six-page advocacy brochure describes some of the challenges faced by young people and UNFPA-supported work that encourages them to reach their full potential.
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A UNFPA Strategy for Gender Mainstreaming in Areas of Conflict and Reconstruction
A report from the consultative meeting held in Bratislava, Slovakia, on 13-15 November 2001. The purpose of the meeting was twofold: first, to examine and explore the impact of armed conflict on women and girls; and, second, to formulate strategies and tools to ensure that reproductive health programmes accurately reflect this population's needs, specifically by addressing them through a comprehensive, gender-sensitive approach.
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Implications for Young People
Almost all United Nations global conferences in the last decade have recognized that youth unemployment is a growing problem that needs to be addressed, and that placing youth at the centre of the development agenda is a key to sustainable development. This publication provides a brief overview of how youth unemployment, especially among girls, is linked to problems of poverty, ill health, and illiteracy.
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"Application of Human Rights to Reproductive and Sexual Health"
The meeting examined, in particular, three issues of considerable importance to sexual and reproductive health, in order to assess the impact of clinical services, health systems and other underlying social, economic, legal and political factors on the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to identify the positive measures which States are required to take under relevant treaty provisions to ensure the enjoyment of those rights. The three areas were unsafe abortion, adolescents' access to sexual and reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. The recommendations for action are grouped into three main areas : advocacy, information gathering and reporting process, and national level implementation.
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