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“Your story holds power”: UNFPA provides HIV testing for survivors of violence in Namibia

World AIDS Day is 1 December. © UNFPA Namibia
  • 04 December 2023
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Tackling the hidden mental health crisis in Yemen

A woman receives counselling at a UNFPA-supported specialized mental health centre in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen
  • 08 January 2024
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Midwives go door-to-door amid flooding in Peru, reaching thousands with critical health services

Miryam Coello is visited by one of UNFPA’s midwives at her home in the Veintiséis de Octubre district in Piura. © UNFPA Peru
  • 27 December 2023
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“It's about our health and our future”: Ensuring sexual and reproductive health support in northern Mozambique

Margarida Agida and Selma Severino, maternal and child health nurses from the Lichinga health centre in Niassa, Mozambique, show the range of family planning methods they offer to a community caught up in violent attacks.
  • 17 January 2024
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“Hope arrived in the form of Rahna”: The life-saving work of midwives after the Afghanistan earthquake

Midwife Rahna visits with new mother, 20-year-old Hanifa, whose home was destroyed in the 7 October earthquake that struck Herat province. © UNFPA Afghanistan / Ahmad Jamshid Qazizadah
  • 02 November 2023
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Women and girls’ rights are an unseen casualty of the crisis in Syria

“It was the worst experience of our lives, even after 10 years of crisis in Syria,” explained Khadija, a 28-year-old Syrian woman from Deir ez-Zor, who recently survived a harrowing journey as she gave birth to her sixth child while fleeing violence in her hometown. © UNFPA Syria
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Quantum Supplier Portal Webinar Phase I

Resource date: Jan 2024

Author: UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit

Publisher: UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit

For international suppliers holding a valid Blanket Purchase Agreement with the UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit.

Learn more about the Quantum Supplier Portal.

Midwives in Gaza receive much-needed supplies to ensure safe births

Published on: 09/01/2024

From the newly created UNRWA field hospital in Gaza, UNFPA Palestine Representative Dominic Allen tells us the catastrophic situation on the ground.

With hospitals being far over capacity, midwives and doctors are beyond exhausted.

UNFPA is committed to providing them with much-needed support and supplies.

Pregnant women in Gaza urgently need life-saving care

Published on: 22/12/2023

“Pregnancy in these circumstances is an extraordinary suffering,” says Seba (28), who is 9 months pregnant and has two children.

People in Gaza don’t have water, food, enough blankets, hygiene facilities, and the medical assistance they need.

Let Seba share her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency— is providing life-saving support to pregnant women in shelters in the southern Gaza Strip. Learn more.

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