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Midwives go door-to-door amid flooding in Peru, reaching thousands with critical health services
- 27 December 2023
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Cabo Delgado: Low tides and high stakes
Reaching women and girls in Mozambique’s northernmost province
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18 January 2024
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“Hope arrived in the form of Rahna”: The life-saving work of midwives after the Afghanistan earthquake
- 02 November 2023
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Women and girls’ rights are an unseen casualty of the crisis in Syria
- 10 May 2022
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Midwives in Gaza receive much-needed supplies to ensure safe births
Published on: 09/01/2024
From the newly created UNRWA field hospital in Gaza, UNFPA Palestine Representative Dominic Allen tells us the catastrophic situation on the ground.
With hospitals being far over capacity, midwives and doctors are beyond exhausted.
UNFPA is committed to providing them with much-needed support and supplies.
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Pregnant women in Gaza urgently need life-saving care
Published on: 22/12/2023
“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.
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Heroes amid crises – 8 stories of resilience and hope from 2023
- 21 December 2023
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Hospitals in the south of Gaza are struggling to assist pregnant women and newborns
Published on: 15/12/2023
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Smoothing rough roads to reproductive health services in the Philippines
- 23 October 2023
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Pregnant woman stuck under rubble in Gaza shares heartbreaking story
Published on: 02/11/2023
“They bombed the house next to us. I was under the rubble and couldn’t move,” says Islam, who was pregnant and 10 days from her due date when her home in Gaza was destroyed by relentless bombardment.
Listen to her tell her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is responding to this humanitarian crisis.
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