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AMUA Accelerator II Demo Day: And the winners are….
On 12 August – as youth around the world celebrated International Youth Day, with this year’s theme Youth Engagement for Global Action – AMUA... Read more
World Humanitarian Day: Celebrating the Real-life Heroes Battling COVID-19, Crises and Disasters
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Humanitarian Day Saving lives has never been more harrowing. Last year saw attacks... Read more
Youth leading the way in COVID-19 solutions
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanen, International Youth Day. As we mark International Youth Day in the midst of a global... Read more
Boosting the health workforce in Tanzania
Tanzania’s health workforce got a boost recently as 575 volunteer health workers – physicians, doctors, nurses and environmental health officers –... Read more
Dignity Kits bring hygiene supplies to quarantined women in Zanzibar
Bikombo* says she was lucky she had the chance to gather some of the things she would need for her stay at the government-run quarantine facilities... Read more
Peace in the home: safeguarding the health and rights of women and girls – even during COVID-19
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day.
Sustaining access to reproductive health services during the pandemic
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Officially, the COVID-19 pandemic has sickened 11 million people and left more than half a million dead. But the full toll... Read more
Stepping up support to the National Child Helpline #116
C- Sema – Kiswahili for speak – runs the National Child Helpline #116 – a toll-free service that is available across all networks in Tanzania... Read more
Faith leaders at the forefront of COVID-19 protection efforts in Zanzibar
Ms. Amina Khalfan, a religious leader and member of West B Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Action Group in Zanzibar, was one of 30 religious leaders who... Read more
Confronting the silent and endemic crisis of harmful practices
Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem on the launch of UNFPA’s flagship State of the World Population Report. Urgent, accelerated... Read more