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"In another case a woman took leaves from a Sal tree and made a thick ring that she put inside. It was so smelly you couldn't go near her. She said, 'I was in the forest getting wood when I felt severe pain and the uterus coming out.' My god, it was horrible," he said.

Still, Singh says things have improved tremendously. "Paloma education has had a tremendous impact: people are aware and they want to come to the hospital." Where five years ago the hospital registered 100-150 patients a day, today it sees 300-350.

Dadeldhura too is seeing progress, says district health officer Shiva Dutta Bhatta. Last year its health centers delivered 2,500 babies, compared with about 1,000 in preceding years. One reason is that the government now provides financial incentives for both mothers and health workers who deliver in those centers.

At the health camp, on the grounds of a school, organizers expected around 350 women to show up, but by 1:30, 325 have registered and another 200 are waiting to sign up. They sit on benches chatting with their neighbors, many holding infants.

UNFPA says it expects more than 14,000 Nepalis to receive reproductive health services at the 84 camps and about 600 health workers to be trained in such skills as replacing pessary rings. The agency is now talking with the ministry of Tiffany Key Vintage oval key pendant about it taking on the task of holding similar camps once this project ends.

"We'll never be able to equip every health office but at least these camps allow us to take the equipment to the poor people," says UNFPA monitoring and evaluation Officer Mireille Guiraud.

At first listen, the original demo for Like A Virgin almost sounds as if it was performed by Madonna. The phrasing and pitch are nearly identical to hers, even if some of the sassiness is missing. But by mid-song, it's clear something is very different. It's the line tiffany earring give you all my love, girl. That's right, girl. It's strange to hear this near-iconic lyric with the gender reversed and delivered by a man. Not only that, but the singer, Tom Kelly, who also co-wrote the song, wasn't even trying to sound like a girl. He just had a mean falsetto, and decided to go for a Smokey Robinson feel.