The Maternal Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) is UNFPA's flagship programme for accelerating improved maternal health. Since its inception in 2008, it has contributed to averting an estimated 92,000 maternal deaths through strategic interventions in 39 countries with the highest maternal mortality and morbidity rates.
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The Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Issues of the United Nations General Assembly calls in the new resolution upon the international community to end fistula within a generation.
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The report, recently released by UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, calls for developing a global action plan to end fistula within a generation.
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This annual report highlights the critical contribution of the UNFPA-led Campaign to End Fistula in 2015 with resulted in the facilitation of more than 13,000 fistula surgeries and the training of more than 900 fistula survivors in income-generating activities. The Campaign to End Fistula is part of the work of UNFPA’s Maternal Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) to more broadly strengthen health systems to deliver quality maternal health services.
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Médecins Sans Frontières, member of the Campaign to End Fistula, set up the Gitega Fistula Centre within the Regional Hospital of Gitega, Burundi, in 2009 to provide high quality, multi-disciplinary care, free of charge, all year round. This report aims to reflect on the experience of setting-up, running and handing over such a fistula project.
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The report updates on UNFPA's work in 2014 to end fistula and other improvements in maternal health in 2014.
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The new resolution calls on the international community to intensify technical and financial support to accelerate progress in the remaining days until the deadline to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 (to improve maternal health) by the end of 2015 and eliminate fistula.
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The brochure highlights achievements and results in first decade of the Campaign to End Fistula.
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The report, recently released by UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, calls for systematic notification of fistula cases and the creation of national registers to ensure proper care, follow up and support for all fistula patients.
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This report highlights UNFPA's progress in ending fistula and other maternal health intitiatives through the Maternal Health Thematic Fund (MHTF).
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