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250 healthcare professionals from Moldova trained in cervical cancer prevention
Chisinau, 1 July - 250 specialists from primary health care institutions from all regions of the country participated in a training course on Cervical Screening between 1-13 July, 2019. They have... Read more
Two National Laboratories Equipped with State of the Art Technology to Prevent Cervical Cancer
Chisinau, 6 June 2019 - Two national laboratories from the Republican Clinical Hospital and the Mother and Child Institute were equipped with advanced equipment for the delivery of cervical screening... Read more
The Frăsineşti community from Ungheni district supports youth health education
Pupils, parents, teachers and opinion leaders from Frăsineşti village, Ungheni district, came together to talk about the rights and needs of adolescents and ways of building a youth-friendly... Read more
National commitment to promote youth health education
More than 130 representatives of district education divisions, school principals and teachers, doctors and adolescent health specialists, students and parents from several districts of the country... Read more
Bringing innovations to improve the quality of "Health Education" teaching
Health education is an optional discipline containing 7-9 modules, including hygiene, nutrition, life without violence, sports, reproductive health, mental health. About 10% of adolescents from... Read more
UNFPA joins SDC and the Council of Europe to strengthen youth participation and civic engagement in Moldova
A Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research (MECC), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC) and... Read more
International Day of Families: ‘We would like to have another child, but...’
Two young one-child families from the town of Orhei, Moldova, say they want to have two or three children in the future. Many Moldovan families want the same. However, according to young families,... Read more
‘Our parents think that we have these discussions at school, while teachers think we have them at home’
Reproductive rights and women’s role evolved a lot over generations, but some stereotypes regarding gender norms, family planning, health education at home and at school, are still present. These... Read more
Revolution of Choice. Op-ed by Alanna Armitage, UNFPA Regional Director
Three decades, roughly a generation, after the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia emerged from the collapse of Communism and embarked on the path to market economy and democracy, the region... Read more
World must work harder to secure sexual and reproductive rights for all, says new UNFPA global report
The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their own bodies and shape their own futures. But... Read more