UNFPA Nepal

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Responding to hygiene and protection needs of flood-affected women and girls
Adolescents in focus: Reaching the unreached with family planning
“I tell them (adolescent girls) that if we give birth before we are ready, it can harm us. Our bodies won’t have developed enough”
‘Now we don't even know when someone is menstruating’
Students are taught not only about human anatomy but also positive values regarding their sexual and reproductive health, as well as about rights, gender equality, violence and staying safe.
Muslim minority women break barriers to embrace family planning
Women regularly seek Female Community Health Volunteers' advice, and she feels the stigma of using contraceptives has weakened. Women who used to feel embarrassed to show their arms after getting a shot now go the clinics openly.

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10 December 2019

Let’s advance rights and choices for all by supporting youth activists, youth networks and youth organizations, amplifying the voices of young people as transformative agents of change.

3 December 2019

Strengthening midwifery education in Nepal

Improving the quality of midwifery care could avert 80 per cent of maternal deaths.

1 December 2019

Communities make the difference

By harnessing the power of community, we can close the gaps in HIV prevention and response and end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. United in this decade of action for the Sustainable Development Goals, let’s make it happen!