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A 12-hour walk at 7 months pregnant: Escape from the horrors of war in Ukraine

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Natasha Kuznetsova, a seven-month pregnant Ukrainian refugee, is treated for an acute kidney infection at the Sfânta Treime hospital in Chișinău, in the Republic of Moldova © UNFPA Moldova/Eduard Bîzgu

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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s Message at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s Message at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

Remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the Virtual Media Briefing on The State of World Population 2022.

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Statement at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

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8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

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At 14, Dankay Kanu (right, with a mentor from the 2YoungLives NGO, which helps pregnant girls in Sierra Leone continue their education and find employment) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit school for a time, she has since returned while raising her now-two-year-old son, Ishmael, alone. "To be a mother at this age is not really easy," she said, "but that will enable me to become stronger." @ UNFPA/Michael Duff

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Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended—a global crisis, says new UNFPA report

calendar_today30 March 2022

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UNFPA

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Mar 2022

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UNFPA

Number of pages

160

State of World Population

Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy

An estimated 121 million pregnancies per year take place in the bodies of women who did not choose pregnancy or motherhood, who were not planning to have a child at that time, with that partner, in those circumstances. Nothing is more fundamental to bodily autonomy than the ability to decide whether or not to become pregnant. Yet for too many, the most life-altering reproductive choice is no choice at all.

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More than $250 million needed to sustain humanitarian response for women and girls in Afghanistan

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Internally displaced persons on their way to seek free medical services from a mobile health team in Kandahar. From August to December 2021, UNFPA-supported mobile health teams reached more than 33,000 people with sexual and reproductive health services. © UNFPA Afghanistan

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In her words: “Above my house, I saw a burning missile.” An expectant mother seeks safety in the Republic of Moldova

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Daria Smirnova (right), who is nine months pregnant, left Odessa, Ukraine with her mother and young son for the Republic of Moldova, where she is staying in a placement centre in the capital city of Chișinău. © UNFPA Moldova/Adriana Bîzgu

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Maternal and reproductive health-care crisis in Ethiopia

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Asnaketch recovering in her tent after a stillbirth at Haylota internally displaced persons site in Konso, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region state. @ UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo

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Crisis after the storm: needs soar for women and girls in typhoon-ravaged Philippines

calendar_today03 February 2022

A UNFPA staff member walks to a damaged health centre in Siargao Island, Surigao Del Norte on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines ©UNFPA Philippines

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A 12-hour walk at 7 months pregnant: Escape from the horrors of war in Ukraine

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s Message at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

Statement at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended—a global crisis, says new UNFPA report

Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy

More than $250 million needed to sustain humanitarian response for women and girls in Afghanistan

In her words: “Above my house, I saw a burning missile.” An expectant mother seeks safety in the Republic of Moldova

Maternal and reproductive health-care crisis in Ethiopia

Crisis after the storm: needs soar for women and girls in typhoon-ravaged Philippines

A 12-hour walk at 7 months pregnant: Escape from the horrors of war in Ukraine

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