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United Nations Population Fund
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United Nations Population Fund
An organization created by the United Nations and charged with promoting reproductive health. It provides funding for programs to discourage the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, to promote the use of contraceptives and to support healthy pregnancies and childbirths. The alleged role of the United Nations Population Fund in funding abortions and forced sterilizations has been a source of controversy.
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Sanger was the inspiration of the World Population conference of 1927 which, according to Connelly, marked the stage at which eminent demographers and scientists began to take an international view of population.
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This was not the first global meeting that tried to tackle the population problem; the World Population Conference in Bucharest, Romania, in 1974, and the International Conference on Population in Mexico City in 1984 were earlier efforts.
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