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Pregnant women in Gaza urgently need life-saving care
22 December 2023
“Pregnancy in these circumstances is an extraordinary suffering,” says Seba (28), who is 9 months pregnant and has two children.
People in Gaza don’t have water, food, enough blankets, hygiene facilities, and the medical assistance they need.
Let Seba share her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency— is providing life-saving support to pregnant women in shelters in the southern Gaza Strip. Learn more.
“Pregnant women have suffered… The hospital is not safe.”
Health care workers like Dr. Haya Hijazi are heroes, but they can’t save lives when bombs are falling and they are out of electricity and medicine.
Hear from Dr. Hijazi about the horrific situation for pregnant women in Gaza, where 180 births a day are taking place amid relentless bombardment, and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding.
Alaa is one of the many pregnant women in Gaza who have been losing their babies from stress and malnutrition.
Hear her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is taking action to make motherhood safer.
Two months after the devastating earthquakes hit Herat, women and girls are still in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
Let UNFPA Asia & the Pacific Regional Director Pio Smith show you how we are providing life-saving support to the thousands of people affected in Afghanistan.
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