News

Communication and understanding: The pillars supporting culturally sensitive maternal health care in Panama

Intercultural interpreter Eira Carrera helps the women of her indigenous Ngäbe community liaise with Spanish-speaking health-care providers at the José Domingo De Obaldía Maternal and Infant Hospital. ©UNFPA/Rebecca Zerzan
  • 20 March 2024
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Nuns and monks break the silence on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Bhutan

Nuns and monks gathered at Pangrizampa College of Astrology to speak with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem about their work on sexual and reproductive health and rights. © UNFPA Bhutan/Nilanjana Bose
  • 04 November 2019
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With coffee ceremony and midwives, mums get a happy start in rural Ethiopia

Fikre Molla was happy to receive professional care before, during and after childbirth, without having to forgo traditions. © UNFPA Ethiopia
  • 27 April 2019
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Female Islamic preachers call for women’s rights, contraception in Niger

In this Islamic study group, older women bring up questions that younger women are too embarrassed to raise. © UNFPA WCARO/Habibou Dia
  • 27 February 2019
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Thousands reached in Somalia reproductive health campaign

The outreach campaign provided antenatal care, postpartum services, family planning counselling and many other services. © UNFPA Somalia
  • 20 January 2017
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Violence survivors find compassion, care at Cameroon's Listening Centre

The Listening Centre refers violence survivors to a local health centre for medical care. Here, women wait to be seen at a health centre in Cameroon. © UNFPA Cameroon
  • 22 October 2015
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Putting human rights at the heart of reproductive health

A new mother attends a culturally sensitive counselling session at the Jose Domingo De Obaldia Hospital in David, Panama. © UNFPA/Guadalupe Valdes
  • 17 April 2015
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Resources

A Call to Action Faith for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights Post 2015 Development Agenda

Resource date: Sep 2014

In September 2014, UNFPA convened a meeting of dozens of faith leaders at UN Headquarters in New York to discuss sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. UNAIDS played a role in the meeting as a participant. The faith leaders, who came from around the world and represented six major faiths, issued a call to action on the critical importance of sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights to the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. 

News

Breaking the Silence about Maternal Death in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth.
  • 27 April 2010
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A Multi-pronged Approach to Maternal Health in Lao PDR is Getting Results

Community midwives share information; informally with some of the pregnant women in the village. Photo © Chien-Chi Chang / Magnum Photos
  • 18 January 2013
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