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11 August 2023
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Youth Game Changers Event Strengthens Peer-led Data Literacy Initiatives
Students and youth advocates from across Papua New Guinea joined UNFPA and NSO’s Game Changers workshop to explore peer-led games to strengthen data literacy.
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25 July 2023
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In the Highlands, 100% of Health Facilities Receive Stock Within 4 Months of Placing an Order. In Southern Region, This is Only 30%.
A new survey has shown the difference in availability of essential medicines across different regions of Papua New Guinea.
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24 July 2023
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More Health Workers Proficient in Supply Chain Management for Essential Medicines
Since 2019, more health facilities report having personnel trained in Logistics Information Management Systems (LMIS). These systems assist health facility staff in assessing…
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21 July 2023
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4 months ago Wallace Orivi Joined UNFPA's Inventory Management Training. Now, He's Sharing His Knowledge With District Hospitals in Southern Highlands.
Four months since an intensive inventory management training with UNFPA, Mendi Hospital Pharmacy Manager, Wallace Orivi, shares with UNFPA how he is working with colleagues at…
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20 July 2023
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Engaging Men and Boys ‘Crucial’ to Protecting Women and Girls in Humanitarian Response
Health workers in Enga Province have completed training in clinical management of rape and in the Minimum Essential Service Package, strengthening the humanitarian response…
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19 July 2023
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57% of Health Facilities Meet Minimum Global Standard for Maternal Health Medicines
Results from the Health Facility Survey 2022 show that half of the surveyed facilities had access to the WHO global minimum standard of seven essential reproductive medicines.
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17 July 2023
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“This is silently destroying lives”: Exposing the Cobra Head Phenomenon in Papua New Guinea
In 2012, hundreds of men working at the LNG plant in Komo were offered penis enlargement by a doctor who charged them 50 kina per injection. Now, these men are facing life-long…
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11 July 2023
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FilmBRO and UNFPA’s Life in the Ward: Rural Health Premieres in Port Moresby
The latest episode in the documentary series Life in the Ward premiered to an audience of over 100 health practitioners, youth advocates, and business leaders on Tuesday.
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04 July 2023
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Health Providers in Enga Welcome Post-Rape Kits for Communities Displaced by Violence.
UNFPA has provided reproductive health kits, including supplies for the clinical management of rape, to health service providers in Enga Province. Health workers share their…
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