Motorcycles, mobile hospitals and new mamas: Meeting the overwhelming needs of women and girls in the Horn of Africa

22 May 2023

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UNFPA Ethiopia Humanitarian Response: Situation Report - April 2023

Resource date: May 2023

Publisher: UNFPA Ethiopia

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Partnering with Ethiopia’s ministry of women, the World Bank and UNOPS to address gender-based violence after two years of conflict

16 May 2023

Under a $15.1 million project, UNFPA and partners will expand access to medical and psychosocial support services for women and girls affected by two years of conflict. © UNFPA Ethiopia

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Prevention, treatment, reintegration and advocacy: How UNFPA and partners work to end obstetric fistula

Pastor Kouakou Adou Kouamé advises newlyweds to take precautions against obstetric fistula. © UNFPA Côte d’Ivoire

22 May 2023

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UNFPA mobile clinic helps women give birth safely during crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Midwives working in UNFPA’s mobile clinic attend to a pregnant woman who was forced to flee her home for a temporary displacement camp in Rusayo, North Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA/Junior Mayindu

08 May 2023

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Young mothers in Malawi find a space safe from Tropical Storm Freddy’s catastrophic consequences

Young women, including adolescent parents, gather at a UNFPA Safe Space in Bangula camp in the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy. © UNFPA/Eldson Chagara

17 April 2023

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UNFPA Ethiopia Humanitarian Response: Situation Report - March 2023

Resource date: Mar 2023

Publisher: UNFPA Ethiopia

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“I have never seen so many pregnant women in this situation”: Survivors of Tropical Cyclone Freddy face Mozambique’s worst cholera outbreak in two decades

UNFPA has procured and installed tents to serve as temporary health facilities in areas where health clinics have been destroyed in Mozambique. © UNFPA Mozambique.

24 April 2023

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Ensuring critical maternal health services after cyclone Freddy wreaks havoc in Malawi

Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lasting and most travelled tropical storm on record, has caused severe flooding and mudslides, with hundreds killed, health centres submerged and entire villages left stranded as roads and bridges were washed away. © UNFPA/Eldson Chagara

29 March 2023

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“I know how to listen”: Midwives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo use groundbreaking new birth model to care for pregnant survivors of sexual violence

Midwife Aimée Nzimire assists labouring mother Valerine Mwamini. Though the Panzi hospital's new "Transforming Birth" model is designed to serve survivors of gender-based violence, Ms. Mwamini is not herself a GBV survivor. © UNFPA Democratic Republic of the Congo/Lisa Thanner

05 April 2023

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Motorcycles, mobile hospitals and new mamas: Meeting the overwhelming needs of women and girls in the Horn of Africa

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