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            <title>Despite Risk of Unintended Pregnancy, Many Women Unprotected</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7712</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A Number of Factors Hinder Women’s Consistent  Contraceptive Use]]></description>
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            <title>Despite Anti-Condom Policies, U.S. Shipments of Female Condoms Quadruple</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7704</link>
            <description><![CDATA[But New Report Suggests that Ineffective Programming, Lack of Political Will Continue to Deny Female Condom Access to Women in Countries Most Impacted by HIV]]></description>
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            <title>G8  Action Urged to Avert Six Million Mother and Child Deaths Every Year</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7702</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health calls for an additional $10.2 billion annually, the estimated cost to ensure universal coverage of basic services needed to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 on reducing child death and improving maternal health by 2015, respectively.]]></description>
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            <title>Critical health care fails to reach most women and children in high mortality countries despite ...</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7700</link>
            <description><![CDATA[World’s health leaders and parliamentarians convene to address accelerated action to reduce maternal and child deaths]]></description>
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            <title>New Study – Same Result! Comprehensive Sex Education Works</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7690</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Adolescents receiving comprehensive sex education had a substantially lower risk of teenage pregnancy than students who received either abstinence-only education or no education at all]]></description>
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            <title>Concession on Global AIDS Bill Compromises Women's Health and Rights</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7684</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Center for Health and Gender Equity disappointed in Senate committee's Global AIDS bill that fails to provide effective HIV/AIDS strategy for women and girls]]></description>
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            <title>The International Women’s Health Coalition and Better World Campaign Call on the Next U.S. ...</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7688</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Four-Point Agenda Would Regain U.S. Leadership on Women’s Health and Rights]]></description>
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            <title>U.S.-based NGOs highlight Women of Color for International Women's Day</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Advocates speak to lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the disproportionate impact of gender-based violence and HIV & AIDS among Women of Color]]></description>
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            <title>In Celebration of International Women’s Day Activists Lobby for Safe Motherhood</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7676</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Activists from across the United States visit Capitol Hill to call for increased political will and financial commitment to end maternal death.]]></description>
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            <title>Barbados Policy Maker; Family Care International (FCI) Win 2008 UN Population Award</title>
            <link>http://www.planetwire.org/details/7673</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Population Award Committee, chaired by Sweden’s Ambassador Anders Lidén, chose the winners from 11 individual and seven institutional nominees from around the world.]]></description>
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