United Nations Population Fund
- It is a UN agency aimed at improving reproductive and maternal health worldwide.
- Its work includes developing national healthcare strategies and protocols, increasing access to birth control, and leading campaigns against child marriage, gender-based violence, obstetric fistula, and female genital mutilation.
- The agency began operations in 1969 as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities under the administration of the United Nations Development Fund.
- In 1971 it was placed under the authority of the United Nations General Assembly.
- Its name was changed into United Nations Population Fund in ....
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