The UNFPA supports programs in more than 150 countries, territories and areas spread across four geographic regions: Arab States and Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.

UNFPA supports various data collection activities, including censuses to provide detailed information for planning and rapid health assessments to allow for appropriate, effective and efficient relief.

UNFPA looks to improve the lives and expand the choices of individuals and couples because, according to UNFPA, in time the reproductive choices, multiplied across communities and countries, affect population construction and trends.

UNFPA assists countries in every aspect of this task, from developing capacity in data collection and analysis to participating in national, regional and global policy dialogue.

Since 2007, UNFPA has decentralized its operations as a way to become a more field-centred, efficient and strategic partner to the countries it serves.

In 2007, UNFPA in partnership with UNICEF, launched a $ 44-million program to reduce the practice by 40 per cent in 16 countries by 2015 and to end it within a generation.

By resuming funding to UNFPA, the US will be joining 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV / AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries.

Along with WHO, the World Bank and UNFPA, UNICEF is accelerating maternal health interventions in the highest burden countries.

The plan was principally financed using funds from USAID ( 36 million dollars ), the Nippon Foundation, and later, the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ).

According to a separate estimate by the United Nations, Earth ’ s population exceeded 7 billion in October 2011, a milestone that offers unprecedented challenges and opportunities to all of humanity, according to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

UNFPA is the world's largest multilateral source of funding for population and reproductive health programs.

The three core areas of UNFPA ’ s work – reproductive health, gender equality and population and development strategies – are inextricably related.

Promoting and protecting these rights requires considerable cultural fluency because UNFPA works in some of the most sensitive and intimate spheres of human existence, including sexuality, gender relations and population issues.

UNFPA provided aid to Peru's population control program in the mid-to-late ' 90s.

In a letter from the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns to Congress, the administration said it had determined that UNFPA ’ s support for China ’ s population program “ facilitates ( its ) government ’ s coercive abortion program ”, thus violating the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which bans the use of United States aid to finance organizations that support or take part in managing a program of coercive abortion of sterilization.

However, according to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, the UNFPA contributed vehicles and computers to the Chinese to carry out their population control policies.

Dr. Nafis Sadik, former director of UNFPA said her agency had been pivotal in reversing China's coercive population control methods, but a 2005 report by Amnesty International and a separate report by the United States State Department found that coercive techniques were still regularly employed by the Chinese, casting doubt upon Sadik's statements.

The world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programs is the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ).

In 1989 the Central Statistics Bureau released demographic data to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities ( UNFPA ) in order to secure the UNFPA's assistance in holding North Korea's first nationwide census since the establishment of the DPRK in 1946.

In their 1992 monograph, The Population of North Korea, Eberstadt and Banister use the data given to the UNFPA and also make their own assessments.

The UNFPA began operations in 1969 as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities ( the name was changed in 1987 ) under the administration of the United Nations Development Fund.

Improving maternal health, MDG5, is a key priority for UNFPA and the goal which lags farthest behind.

Access to reproductive health care also demands what UNFPA calls reproductive health commodity security, the ability for all individuals to obtain and use affordable, quality reproductive health supplies of their choice whenever they need them.

UNFPA ’ s ' four keys ' to opening up opportunities for young people include incorporating youth issues into national development and poverty reduction strategies ; expanding access to gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health education that encourages the development of life skills ; promoting a core package of health services and commodities for young people ; and encouraging youth leadership and participation.

* UNFPA has worked for many years to end the practice of female genital mutilation, the partial or total removal of external female genital organs for cultural or other non-medical reasons.

UNFPA has been accused by different groups of providing support for government programs which have promoted forced-abortions and coercive sterilizations.

When it was discovered the Peruvian program had been engaged in carrying out coercive sterilizations, UNFPA called for reforms and protocols to protect the rights of women seeking assistance.

UNFPA says it " does not provide support for abortion services ".

" We located the family planning offices, and in that family planning office, we located the UNFPA office, and we confirmed from family planning officials there that there is no distinction between what the UNFPA does and what the Chinese Family Planning Office does ," said Scott Weinberg, a spokesman for PRI.

According to its Annual Report for 2008, the UNFPA received its funding mainly from European Governments:

In America, nonprofit organizations like Americans for UNFPA worked to compensate for the loss of United States federal funding by raising private donations.

In January 2009 President Barack Obama restored US funding to UNFPA, saying in a public statement that he would " look forward to working with Congress to restore US financial support for the UN Population Fund.

The Sandbaek Report of the European Union, which calls for the funding of the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ), was seen by some Catholic commentators as a contrast to the Mexico City Policy.

From 2002 through 2008, the Bush Administration denied funding to UNFPA that had already been allocated by the US Congress, partly on the grounds that the UNFPA supported Chinese government programs which include forced abortions and coercive sterilizations.

The contribution of UNFPA to the global response to AIDS is shaped by its mandate to reduce poverty, eliminate gender inequality and ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health.

UNFPA promotes and protects the rights of this important generation of young people, and works towards a world in which girls and boys have optimal opportunities to develop their full potential, to freely express themselves and have their views respected, and to live free of poverty, discrimination and violence.

The work of the UNFPA involves promotion of the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity.

* The United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ) and the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) estimate that 2 million children are exploited in prostitution or pornography every year.

The United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) is a UN organization.

According to UNFPA these elements promote the right of " reproductive health ", that is physical, mental, and social health in matters related to reproduction and the reproductive system.

The Fund is also represented by UNFPA Goodwill Ambassadors and a Patron.

This is the aim of the Global Programme on Reproductive Health Commodity Security, which UNFPA spearheads.

Because only 7. 5 % of women with fistula are able to access treatment ( as found by the UNFPA in 2003 ), the vast majority of women are forced to suffer the consequences of obstructed and prolonged labor simply because options and access to help is so incredibly limited ( there is one hospital dedicated to fistula treatment in the world, located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ).

Manisha Koirala ( born August 16, 1970 ) is a Nepali-Indian actress who works in Indian films, as well as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist.

The rest of the province is thinly populated, with villages concentrated in areas with available irrigation and water sources ( CSO and UNFPA, 2003

As the international headquarters for the United Nations and its many associated institutions such as the UNFPA ( United Nations Population Fund ), New York is home to one of the world ’ s most important international institutions.

Its resulting Program of Action is the steering document for the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ).

is a Japanese actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.

The Nnabagereka places special emphasis on the education of girls, as witnessed through her work as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA, advocating for girls ' education ; She is also involved with the Forum for African Women Educationalists ( FAWE ) an organization whose goal is to accelerate female participation in education and to bridge the gender gap within the education system at all levels.