The UNFPA Annual Report 2006 highlights UNFPA’s efforts throughout the year assisting 154 developing and transition countries and territories to empower women and men to make the choices necessary to improve their lives, improve reproductive and sexual health, reduce maternal death, promote HIV prevention, address unmet needs for family planning, advance effective population policies and alleviate poverty. It describes UNFPA’s work with global partners, including a growing contingent of organizations committed to helping fulfil UNFPA’s mandate. The report also documents the record-breaking number of donors and resources mobilized in 2006, with details of how and where the money was spent. Each chapter of the report features an individual whose life was touched by the work of UNFPA that year.