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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | There are plans to set up a specialized hospital in Uganda to treat the increasing number of women who succumb to fistula. The Terrewode Hospital & Rehabilitation Center will also serve as a centre of excellence and a demonstration facility for surgical training programmes that …

International family planning agency, which will lose all future US funding, says its mission was ‘to ensure every pregnancy is wanted and every child birth is safe’ By Liz Ford and Nadia Khomami The US state department said on April 03 it was ending funding for the UN population fund …

Washington, United States | AFP | The US government plans to stop funding the United Nations Population Fund because of the organization’s “coercive” family planning practices, including providing abortions, officials in Washington said late Monday. According to a State Department official, President Donald Trump has instructed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson …

JOB OPENING OPERATIONS ANALYST UNFPA Position and Grade: Operations Analyst (NOB) Duty Stations: Yangon, Myanmar Type of contract: Fixed‐Term No. of Post: 1 Post Duration of Appointment: 1 year (Initial) Closing date of Application: 23 March 2017 (5:00 pm, Yangon time) Position Starting Date: As soon as possible APPLY HERE …

UNFPA, Outbox accelerate youth innovations The United Nations Population Fund, in collaboration with Outbox, a local business incubator has launched a health-based innovation accelerator dubbed ‘Up Accelerate.’ This is part of a regional initiative by UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional Office, with funding from UKAID, seeking to explore new …

Amidst pomp and color, a new programme geared towards prevention of teenage pregnancy and under-age marriage was launched Tuesday at Golf Course hotel in Kampala. Dubbed, Better Life for Girls (BL46), the programme funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency targets 412,012 girls aged between 10 and 19 years mainly …