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Ensuring Human Rights in Burkina Faso, one baby at time

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Every newborn in Burkina Faso gets a bracelet with a unique code that links to their digital birth certificate. © UNFPA Burkina Faso
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Mobile health units are saving lives in Libya

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Teams of health care workers, including obstetricians/gynaecologists and midwives, serve two-month stints at various facilities throughout Libya to help address shortages in personnel. © UNFPA Libya
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Drones to transport maternal health medicines to rural Benin

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Midwife Germaine Balogoun and colleague offloading health products from the drone, at Firou maternity yard, Department of Atacora, Benin. © UNFPA/Olympia de Maismont
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Mobile health teams: On the road saving lives in Afghanistan’s most remote areas

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A new mother is examined by a mobile health team midwife in Afghanistan. © UNFPA/Afghanistan
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Press release

In follow-up to the Nairobi Summit, High-Level Commission calls for urgent, ambitious action to end alarming disparities in sexual and reproductive justice

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Events

Second Anniversary of Nairobi Summit on ICPD25

calendar_today15 November 2021

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World AIDS Day 2021

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Commitment to supporting childbirth amid Afghanistan’s deteriorating security situation

calendar_today27 October 2021

A midwife at a family health house provides care to a baby. Image taken in 2020. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Telemedicine connects women in the Brazilian Amazon to remote health services

calendar_today21 October 2021

In addition to gynecology and obstetrics, telemedicine also offers care in other specialties. © Pedrinho Dias/Prefeitura de Bagre
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For breast cancer survivors and supporters in Palestine, a chance to come together

calendar_today22 October 2021

Breast cancer survivors help make wigs for women who have lost their hair because of the treatment for the disease at Jabalia Women's Health Centre in Gaza Strip, Palestine. Other women who help may have a personal reason to do so, like having a relative diagnosed with breast cancer, or simply want to show support. © Abdel Shafi Community Health Association
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