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Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

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This woman's second childbirth experience was totally different from her first, she says, because she was able to deliver in the traditional vertical position. © Panorama/Carlos Gomez

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Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

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Residents flee brutal violence in the Rutshuru territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2012. Women give birth, even in wartime and disasters. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

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Saving lives through mentoring

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Saving lives through mentoring

In Burkina Faso, a mentoring programme for midwives is saving the lives of women and newborns.

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As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

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A midwife delivers a baby at a health facility in Juba. At UNFPA-supported health facilities in Juba's protection camps, many of the midwives are themselves displaced people. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Calaguian Alano

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Young people take the lead against Zika in Brazil

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Young members of REPROTAI, a UNFPA-supported youth organization, head to the Lobato neighbourhood of Salvador. They are raising awareness of how to prevent the spread of Zika. © UNFPA/Tatiana Almeida

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“One-stop shop” brings life-saving HIV care, reproductive health to Botswana’s women

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Rose Matuulane, 24, with one of her children. She is able to access antenatal care, cervical cancer screening, HIV testing and family planning counselling all in the same clinic visit. © UNFPA Botswana/Nchidzi Smarts

Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2015

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UNFPA

Publication date

2016

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UNFPA

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Annual Report

Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2015

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Giving birth amid Boko Haram insurgency; UNFPA reaching millions with care

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A nurse and a survivor of the Boko Haram insurgency at an antenatal check-up. UNFPA has provided the clinic, at the GGSS displacement camp, with reproductive health kits, clean delivery kits and dignity kits. © UNFPA Nigeria

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Haitian women felled by preventable cancer; simple test to save lives

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A UNFPA-supported clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, provides free cervical cancer screenings, in addition to a host of obstetric and newborn services. Early detection and treatment will save lives. © Jared Chambers

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May 2016

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UNFPA Western and Central Africa Regional Office

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Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

Saving lives through mentoring

As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

Young people take the lead against Zika in Brazil

“One-stop shop” brings life-saving HIV care, reproductive health to Botswana’s women

Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2015

Giving birth amid Boko Haram insurgency; UNFPA reaching millions with care

Haitian women felled by preventable cancer; simple test to save lives

1000s of lives saved during Ebola outbreak

A photobook on safe childbirth

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