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About us

 
United Nations Population Fund is the leading United Nations agency working for a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young man and bring the young and of their potential. The United Nations Fund to increase the likelihood that women and young people to live healthy and productive lives. Since the work of the United Nations Population Fund began in 1969, the number - decreased rate - women who are victims of death due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth by half. As families become smaller in terms of the number of individuals and more healthier. Youth and become more connected and empowered than ever before.
 

Many left behind

However, there are many people who are still lagging behind. There is still nearly a billion people suffering extreme poverty. The health problems of sexual and reproductive health a major cause of death and disability among women in the developing world. Young also bear the risk of infection, such as HIV-AIDS and unplanned pregnancy. It faces more than a hundred million girls undergo the likelihood of child marriage and other harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation. There is a need to do more to ensure a world in which everyone has to exercise the most basic human rights, including those related to the basic aspects of life and the most privacy.
 
Ensure that every pregnancy is wanted
 
Little is what affects the lives of women more than the number and spacing of their children are born. That confirms international agreements dating back to previous decades, it should be a right for individuals (and means) Ki decide freely when (or if) they want to create a family and a number Alotefl who want to Andjabhm. However, in this new century, there are still some 225 million women who want to avoid or delay pregnancy women, but left without access to the services and facilities of high quality, required to control their fertility.
 
Support for maternal health
 
We know how we can save almost all women, who have experienced death in childbirth. The first step is to ensure their ability to plan their pregnancies and spacing of their children. Also, the presence of skilled attendants at birth, with the availability of emergency obstetric care and essential supplies, crucial.
 
Perhaps the biggest challenge is to reduce death and disability due to birth, is to find ways to reach all women, even those assets in poorer or remote areas or in natural disasters or manmade times. This includes the strengthening of health systems. This is important that pregnant women can have access to the care they need, the start of the HIV tests before birth and even post-natal care for newborn babies, in the same clinic or health center. Where Aofarhma orientation money and saves lives. Helping young people to realize their potential Young people in the age group between 10-24 years, a quarter of the world's population (2014). Reproductive choices will shape the future demographic trends.
 
Champion of the United Nations Population Fund young people's rights, including the right of access to accurate information and services related to sexual and reproductive health-related. If these young people registered empower them with knowledge and skills to protect themselves and take visionary decisions, they can achieve their full potential and contribute to economic and social transformation. Investing in young people, especially teenage girls, is one of the smartest investments you can a country that offers them. Such as parents, teachers and leaders of the next generation, are able to break the cycle of poverty and to strengthen the social fabric and creating a sustainable future

 

Key Results

Tajikistan

School-based comprehensive sexuality education

A comprehensive sexuality education curricula was operationalized in accordance with international standards

Tajikistan

Minimum Initial Services Package

152

Health service providers and managers were trained on the minimum initial service package

Tajikistan

Advocacy platforms against harmful social norms

11

Communities developed advocacy platforms to eliminate discriminatory gender and sociocultural norms which affect women and girls

What we do

UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people. Its mission: to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

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Dr. Nigina Abaszada

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Dr. Nigina Abaszada, UNFPA Country Director for Tajikistan/Representative for Uzbekistan
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