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    • UN in ACTION, an award-winning television series, reports on the work of the UN and its Agencies around the world. These 3- to 5-minute features illustrate UN peacekeeping efforts as well as projects aimed at reducing poverty and human suffering, fighting disease, providing humanitarian assistance and stimulating economic growth. The series consists of fifty seven pieces a year and is available free of rights to broadcasters. For more information, please contact Diane Barkley, barkley@un.org.
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South Sudan: Midwives Fighting to Save Lives

South Sudan suffers from one of the highest levels of maternal mortality in the world. Mothers usually deliver at home with no access to skilled birth attendants. The UN Population Fund is helping to train community midwives in an ambitious effort to tackle this problem. UNIA Programme # 1297 Transcript (pdf): http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/unia1297.pdf

Date:10 May 2011
Programme number:1297
Duration:00:04:32

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