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20 YEAR OLD JENIPHER CAMPAIGNS FOR 1000 BICYCLES IN THE US
Like any other young girl, Jenipher Sanni has dreams of making it big in life. She has just completed her secondary school O level examinations this year. At only 20, she has lived two different... Read more
Family Planning has given me more freedom
At 32 years and working as a ground labour at Mlomba health centre, she has a vision of becoming a nurse. She claims to be in good health and has adequate time to take care of her two children.... Read more
MESSAGE FOR WORLD POPULATION DAY, 11 July 2017
Every day, vulnerable women, especially those who are poor and are refugees, face social, economic and geographic obstacles to voluntary family planning services and information. Fifty years ago... Read more
Malawi launches the 2017 African Union theme
The Minister of Youth, Labour and Manpower development in Malawi with support from UNFPA launched the 2017 African Union theme “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in the Youth.”... Read more
UNFPA mourns passing of Executive Director
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 5 June 2017—With profound sadness, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, announces that its Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, passed away suddenly at his... Read more
“I have done more than 800 Obstetric fistula repairs in three years”– The story of Dr. Enette Chipungu
Lilongwe, Malawi - Every day she walks into the Fistula repair centre at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe with delight and hope to restore women’s dignity through Obstetric Fistula repairing. It is the... Read more
Hope, healing, and dignity for all
Statement of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, 23 May 2017 Over the past year, I followed the total transformation of two women’s... Read more
Pad making skill spills over to out of school girls
There is a special day every week that girls at Lifidzi Primary School in Salima district meet and make their sanitary pads using locally available materials. During such sessions, they are also... Read more
UNFPA MALAWI – 2016 GLOBAL WINNER OF THE UNFPA GOOD PRACTICES COMPETITION
An innovation conceptualised in 2015 during the implementation the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) programme funded by the European Union (EU), the Malawi Country Office developed an M... Read more
Malawi releases 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey findings
The 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey-DHS- findings were recently released in Lilongwe where among key findings; the maternal mortality ratio has decreased from 675 to 439 per 100,000 live births... Read more