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

calendar_today20 March 2024

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
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Nuns and monks break the silence on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Bhutan

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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
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With coffee ceremony and midwives, mums get a happy start in rural Ethiopia

calendar_today27 April 2019

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

calendar_today27 February 2019

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

calendar_today20 January 2017

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

calendar_today22 October 2015

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
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Putting human rights at the heart of reproductive health

calendar_today17 April 2015

A new mother attends a culturally sensitive counselling session at the Jose Domingo De Obaldia Hospital in David, Panama. © UNFPA/Guadalupe Valdes
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Sep 2014

Resources

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

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. 

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Breaking the Silence about Maternal Death in Sierra Leone

calendar_today27 April 2010

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

calendar_today18 January 2013

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