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UNFPA and Partners Drive Strategic Shift in Women’s Health with Launch of Global WomenX Hub in Nairobi
09 June 2025
Nairobi, 9 June 2025 - UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is proud to launch its WomenX Collective (WomenX) Nairobi Hub on 9 June 2025 at the Aga Khan University Auditorium.
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Sudan: Rape survivors and pregnant women cut off from life-saving services as funding collapses
04 June 2025
Hundreds of thousands of women and girls in Sudan are being left without access to emergency obstetric care or support after rape, as conflict, access constraints and devastating funding cuts cut off care and gut essential health services.
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UNFPA Warns of Devastating Impact of Funding Cuts on Midwife Support in Crisis-Hit Countries
05 May 2025
NEW YORK, NY, 05 May, 2025 – Severe funding cuts are forcing UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, to dramatically scale back its support for midwives in crisis settings, jeopardizing the health and lives of pregnant women and newborns in some of the most fragile places on earth.
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DRC: UN Officials Raise Alarm at the Dramatic Impact of Prolonged Conflict on Women and Children, Including Increased Risk of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence on Displaced People
23 April 2025
New York/Geneva, 23 April 2025 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director (Management), Mr. Andrew Saberton, and the Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees for Protection, Ms. Ruvendrini Menikdiwela, raise the alarm over the devastating impact of the prolonged conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly on women and children, expressing grave concern over the rising risks of conflict-related sexual violence.
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UNFPA Launches The Equalizer Challenge to Scale Women’s Health Innovations
11 April 2025
New York, 11 April 2025 – UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, in collaboration with MIT Solve, IE University, and Women of Wearables, is announcing the launch of The Equalizer Challenge: Scaling Women’s Health Innovations. This innovation challenge, enabled by the generous support from the Governments of Germany and Luxembourg, will support women-led enterprises in moving their projects beyond the pilot stage and achieving meaningful, scalable impact on women’s health.
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Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn
07 April 2025
GENEVA/ NEW YORK, 7th April 2025 --- Women today are more likely than ever to survive pregnancy and childbirth according to a major new report released today, but United Nations (UN) agencies highlight the threat of major backsliding as unprecedented aid cuts take effect around the world.
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UNFPA and Partners Launch Midwifery Accelerator to Confront Maternal Health Crisis
07 April 2025
New York, 7 April 2025 – On World Health Day, and at the opening of the 58th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD58), UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, and global partners launched the Midwifery Accelerator — a coordinated effort to reduce preventable maternal deaths by expanding access to quality care provided by midwives.
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At least 173,855 pregnant women at risk following Myanmar Earthquake
04 April 2025
New York, April 4, 2025 – The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit Myanmar on March 28th has killed thousands of people and upended the lives of millions more, including at least 173,855 pregnant women living in affected areas, many of whom have lost access to lifesaving reproductive health services.
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Women in Gaza cut off from accessing maternal health supplies as aid blockade enters fourth week
25 March 2025
Gaza – March 25, 2025 – The ongoing aid blockade on Gaza is severely undermining access to essential health care for women and girls, as supplies run dry and hospitals once again come under attack. This marks the longest suspension of aid to Gaza since 7 October 2023.
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UNFPA Appoints Shudu Musida as Global Champion for Women and Girls
06 February 2025
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is proud to announce Shudufhadzo (known as Shudu) Musida as our Global Champion for Women and Girls.
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UNFPA launches $1.4 billion appeal to safeguard the rights and well-being of women and girls in crises
05 December 2024
More than 11 million pregnant women require urgent support in 2025.
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A warming planet, a world unraveling: Women and girls pay the price on the frontlines of the climate crisis, new UNFPA analysis finds
19 November 2024
New York, 19 November 2024 – Nearly 40 per cent of displacements driven by natural disasters in 2023 occurred in countries highly vulnerable to climate change but ill-equipped to respond, according to new analysis by UNFPA, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency.
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