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30 May 2025
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Against All Odds: The Life-Saving Journey of Olivia Mhila, Midwife in Shinyanga, Tanzania.
"Every day is a new challenge, but it’s also a new opportunity to save a life. My work as a midwife is not just a profession; it’s a calling, and I’m committed to ensuring that…
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27 May 2025
Press Release
UNFPA and Zanzibar Maisha Bora Foundation Forge Strategic Partnership to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Zanzibar
Zanzibar, 27 May 2025 – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Zanzibar Maisha Bora Foundation (ZMBF) today signed a Capacity Grant Agreement marking a significant…
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26 May 2025
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Restoring Dignity: Upendo’s 35 -Year Journey to Healing
Geita, Tanzania – For 35 long years, Upendo Emmanuel lived in silence. At just 16 years old, her life changed forever during what should have been a joyous moment — the birth of…
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23 May 2025
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No woman or girl should have to endure the agony of obstetric fistula
It is one of the most devastating childbirth injuries – and it is entirely preventable. Obstetric fistula is a hole between the birth canal and bladder or rectum or both,…
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22 May 2025
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From Evidence to Impact ...
22 May 2025 – Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. In a remote rural district where access to health services was once extremely limited and maternal deaths were tragically common; change…
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16 May 2025
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Transforming survivor support — from silence and stigma to protection and dignity: Tanzania
UNFPA Tanzania Hands Over Police Gender and Children’s Desk in Madema, Zanzibar Madema, Unguja West – Zanzibar, 15 May 2025 — For every woman who was not believed. For every…
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13 May 2025
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Tanzania Breaks Ground in Urban Data Innovation:
Launch of Degree of Urbanization (DEGURBA) Workshop Marks a New Era in Evidence-Based Planning Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – 13 May 2025. Tanzania has officially launched a…
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09 May 2025
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Sweden and UNFPA Witness Transformative Health Services in Kigoma, Tanzania
Kigoma, Tanzania | 9 May 2025 – As the morning sun rose over the hills of Kigoma, a quiet revolution unfolded beneath a tree in a small village square. At its heart stood Judith…
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05 May 2025
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How a midwife saved two lives while risking her own as floods hit Tanzania
MANYARA REGION, United Republic of Tanzania – “One night, I received a call that a woman in the final weeks of her pregnancy was stuck in her house, surrounded by floods and…
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