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Amid Sudan’s grinding war, maternity hospital offers a beacon of hope
23 October 2025
Crucial care: Reducing maternal mortality and childbirth injury in Angola
All photos © UNFPA Angola/Noriko Hayashi
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This is one of the only safe places left in Gaza to give birth
06 October 2025
https://youtu.be/2373J6MzO7E
https://youtu.be/2373J6MzO7E
This is one of the only safe places left in Gaza to give birth
Imagine going into labour while you’re starving and your local hospital is destroyed.
To help women in Gaza facing this horrific situation, a UNFPA mobile clinic is providing life-saving care.
See what it means to mothers in need.
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Reaching the last mile: Motorbike ambulances improve maternal and newborn health in rural Benin
09 September 2025
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Amid the war in Sudan, this incredible midwife does more than just deliver babies
30 September 2025
https://youtu.be/XiJ1sAmRleM
https://youtu.be/XiJ1sAmRleM
Amid the war in Sudan, this incredible midwife does more than just deliver babies
As pregnant women are displaced and traumatized by the ongoing war in Sudan, see how Hager holds her community together from her small home clinic.
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Health workers lose support structures and pregnant women die: The reality of funding cuts hits in Yemen
15 September 2025
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Women in Yemen pay a deadly cost for funding cuts
09 September 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Rkb4VAQVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Rkb4VAQVw
Women in Yemen pay a deadly cost for funding cuts
Funding cuts for maternal healthcare in Yemen are cutting women’s:
🟠 survival
🟠 dignity
🟠 rights
They need funding to be restored.
The world must invest in humanity.
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Somalia urgently needs incubators to keep babies alive
29 August 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNzt0iHn6cQ&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNzt0iHn6cQ&t=1s
Somalia urgently needs incubators to keep babies alive
Many mothers in Somalia are hearing only a heartbreaking silence when they give birth.
More funding is urgently needed to stop their newborns dying due to preventable causes.
Give to help UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—deliver life-saving care: https://unf.pa/dso
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Explainer: No, contraceptives don’t cause abortions
11 August 2025
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It’s time to end the needless suffering caused by obstetric fistula
03 June 2025
https://youtu.be/FK-nZq99CBc?si=ANMf7ccUVxDd9QPW
https://youtu.be/FK-nZq99CBc?si=ANMf7ccUVxDd9QPW
It’s time to end the needless suffering caused by obstetric fistula
Obstetric fistula is preventable and treatable. Yet thousands of women and girls suffer from the painful realities of living with it. Let UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—explain the traumatic consequences of this serious childbirth injury and why we need to end fistula.
