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

calendar_today29 September 2016

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

calendar_today21 September 2016

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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Video

Saving lives through mentoring

calendar_today15 September 2016

Saving lives through mentoring

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

calendar_today16 September 2016

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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News

Young people take the lead against Zika in Brazil

calendar_today15 September 2016

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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News

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

calendar_today07 September 2016

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
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Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2015

Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

2016

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

80

Annual Report

Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2015

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News

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

calendar_today29 August 2016

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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News

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

calendar_today26 August 2016

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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Publication date

May 2016

Author

UNFPA Western and Central Africa Regional Office

Resources

1000s of lives saved during Ebola outbreak

A photobook on safe childbirth

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