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Nepal floods put pregnant women and new mothers at risk

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Babita Rishidev waded for hours in murky floodwaters, carrying her 38-day-old infant. © UNFPA Nepal/Hari Bhusal

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Mobile clinics deliver essential care to women and girls in remote Haiti

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Yveka, 17, visits a midwife during the mobile clinic. © UNFPA

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For many girls, school holidays means FGM “cutting season”

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Asha Ali Ibrahim, a local circumciser, with her granddaughter, who is due to be cut this year. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin

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Tens of thousands of girls reached through Mozambique empowerment programme

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Edma teaches girls the skills and knowledge they need to protect themselves, stay in school and demand their rights. © UNFPA/Helene Christensen

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Midwifery hotline offers emergency support in Afghanistan

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Expert midwife Tahira Nazari provides support to health workers at the Midwifery Helpline in Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil

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In Bangladesh’s tea gardens, saving mothers and newborns

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Anjana rests with her newborn baby in Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. Both mother and baby survived an obstructed labour, thanks to the intervention of a midwife. © CIPRB/Animesh Biswas

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Cursed no more – women in western Ethiopia reject childbirth alone in the bush

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Women participate in a community discussion about ending practices that are harmful to women and girls. In this session, they are talking about child marriage. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Meron Negash

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Contraceptives reach rural women through pioneering system

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Midwife Nan Win Phyu at the Nam Khoke Rural Health Centre uses a family planning wheel to explain contraceptive options. © UNFPA Myanmar/Si Thu Soe Moe

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“I thought I might die”: Pregnant women struggle to access care in embattled Syria

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Ruqayya and her newborn recover at the Pan-Armenian Charity clinic, outside the Al-Areesheh displacement camp in north-eastern Syria. © UNFPA Syria

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To secure a better future, teens in Sierra Leone look to family planning

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Nepal floods put pregnant women and new mothers at risk

Mobile clinics deliver essential care to women and girls in remote Haiti

For many girls, school holidays means FGM “cutting season”

Tens of thousands of girls reached through Mozambique empowerment programme

Midwifery hotline offers emergency support in Afghanistan

In Bangladesh’s tea gardens, saving mothers and newborns

Cursed no more – women in western Ethiopia reject childbirth alone in the bush

Contraceptives reach rural women through pioneering system

“I thought I might die”: Pregnant women struggle to access care in embattled Syria

To secure a better future, teens in Sierra Leone look to family planning

Nepal floods put pregnant women and new mothers at risk

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