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Beating the odds: Resilience, hope and safe births at a UNFPA mobile clinic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Midwife Fyfy Omoyi hands Ms. Bembeleza her newborn, who was delivered safely at the UNFPA mobile health clinic at the Bulengo displacement camp. The camp is currently sheltering more than 100,000 people who have fled brutal conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ©UNFPA DRC/Jonas Yunus

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Beating the odds: Resilience, hope and safe births at a UNFPA mobile clinic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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