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High Level UN Mission to Uganda to Inform UN Reform
Kampala, Uganda, April 30 - A high level mission of Executive Board members of six United Nations agencies are in Uganda to assess the organisation’s work in supporting the country’s development... Read more
How strong is peer influence in the context of young people’s life-skills learning?
Naiga Zaina*, 14, wishes that one time encounter never happened. “It was a mistake, it was a mistake,” she cries. She explains that the experience robbed her of everything – ‘a goat plus its rope’ –... Read more
UNFPA, NPA sign new partnership to accelerate family planning uptake
UNFPA Uganda and the National Authority have signed a new partnership for implementation of programmes that ensure population issues are at the centre of planning and budgeting processes. This, to... Read more
UNFPA hands over midwifery kits to promote maternal health in hard- to- reach areas
In a bid to promote improved access to maternal health services UNFPA Uganda has handed over an assortment of midwifery kits to 20 midwives, to enable them conduct safe, clean deliveries. At an event... Read more
Influencing the reproductive health agenda: UNFPA’s experience leading the Health Development Partners’ Group
Between January and December 2017, UNFPA Uganda, represented by Assistant Representative Dr. Edson Muhwezi served as chair of the Health Development Partners Group (HDPG). The HDPG is a grouping of... Read more
Teenage refugee mothers want to go back to school
Bidibidi settlement, YUMBE: Flora, Abari and Jessica are all single young mothers living in the Bidi- Bidi refugee settlement in the West Nile district of Yumbe. The 17 -year-old teenage mothers are... Read more
In recognition of translators changing lives in emergencies
Kyaka II Settlement, KYEGEGWA: Twenty-five year-old Alexander Musomwa is a young refugee living in Kyaka II settlement in Kyegegwa district, South Western Uganda. Like many other refugees, his is a... Read more
Triplets, twins and singles; heartwarming safe births from Kyangwali Refugee Settlement
Kyangwali Settlement, HOIMA: Pregnancy and childbirth are supposed to be journeys of joy; with a safe birth a dream of every mother. But during emergencies, women and girls may give birth without... Read more
UNFPA responds to DRC refugee emergency
Kyaka II settlement, KYEGEGWA: In every emergency, one of every five women of reproductive age is expected to be pregnant. Without access to reproductive health services like skilled attendance,... Read more
Protecting reproductive rights of rural women: a pathway to a more equal world
UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem International Women’s Day, 8 March 2018 The economic inequalities plaguing much of the world today are reinforced by many other forms of inequality,... Read more