sexual and reproductive health

Babies at a neonatal intensive unit at a hospital in Kampala, Uganda, which was refurbished with support from UNFPA.
UNICEF/Catherine Ntabadde

UK’s 85% family planning aid cut will be devastating for women and girls says UNFPA, while UNAIDS also 'deeply regrets' cuts

29 April 2021
Women

The United Kingdom’s intention to cut 85 per cent of its contribution to a flagship UN family planning programme this year, will have devastating consequences for women and girls and their families across the world, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) said on Thursday.

Syphilis is a curable sexually transmitted infection. (file)
© UNICEF/Jan Mun

More than one million sexually transmitted infections occur every day: WHO

6 June 2019
Health

The global scale of sexually transmitted infections (STI) should be a “wake-up call” to governments, UN health experts said on Thursday, citing data showing that one in 25 people today have “at least one” curable STI, which occur at a rate of more than one million a day worldwide.

Early marriage remains a serious problem in Chad in the Sahel region of Africa.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

More than four in 10 women, live in fear of refusing partner’s sexual demands, new UN global study finds

10 April 2019
Women

More than four in 10 women in 51 countries surveyed, feel they have no choice but to agree to their partner’s sexual demands, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, said on Wednesday, noting that they are also unable to make basic decisions about getting pregnant and accessing health care for themselves.