The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. The agency advocates for, provides access to, and educates on sexual and reproductive health and rights services.  Rebecca Zerzan, editor with UNFPA, sits down to talk with us about UNFPA’s 2024 state of world population report, Interwoven Lives, Threads of Hope: Ending Inequalities in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Rebecca also details the ways in which global misinformation impacts access to care.

UNFPA is the world’s largest procurer of donated contraception, which is distributed mostly in low- and middle-income countries. UNFPA also works closely with local organizations and agencies to facilitate access to medically accurate, culturally sensitive education. UNFPA’s recent report looks back over the last three decades, when the scale of maternal death was unknown, rates of adolescent births were higher, and rates of women’s contraception usage was halved, and discusses global progress. The report also researches misinformation around the world and how that impacts an individual’s access to comprehensive care.

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