Access to family planning and advancing the rights of young people are the 2013 priorities for the UN Populations Fund (UNFPA), says the agency’s head.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive Director of UNFPA, spoke to UN Radio’s May Yaacoub about his Agency’s focus and achievements made so far.
Duration: 4’58”
Hospitals are places where people go to be healed, but sometimes that’s where their health and safety are compromised.
As part of the efforts to address this problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday released a resource package of practical tools aimed at improving patient safety in hospitals in developing countries.
The resource package was co-developed by frontline health professionals through a pioneering programme known as the African Partnerships for Patient Safety (APPS).
"Modern stereotypes of indigenous identity do not define us as indigenous peoples, but oppress us from reaching our full potential as leaders in our communities," wrote Steven Brown, an aborigine from Australia.
He spoke at the first international expert group meeting on indigenous youth held at the United Nations from the 29th to the 31st of January.
Gerry Adams spoke with Steven Brown about his thoughts on the meeting’s theme--identity, hopes and challenges--and Australian society’s treatment of its indigenous population.
Duration: 2'34"
Dr. Marleen Temmerman, head of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, joined the agency late last year because she believes it can play a very prominent role in meeting the unmet needs of so many women in the area of reproductive health and services.
Dr. Temmerman talks to Beng Poblete-Enriquez about her priorities and recalls an early experience in Kenya where a 15 year-old pregnant girl died in her arms from a ruptured uterus.
Duration: 4'30"
