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Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world throughout the year. In Somalia, above, the day falls in March. © Tobin Jones for UNFPA

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War in Ukraine shocks global food supply, putting lives at risk

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A young mother and her baby are weighed before being examined for malnutrition at UNFPA-supported Marib General hospital in Yemen, a country that relies heavily on food imports. Skyrocketing food prices have increased the number of people in need of food assistance from 16.2 million in 2021 to 19 million people in 2022. © UN/Giles Clarke

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Hope on wheels: Emergency maternal health units reach farthest corners of the Philippines

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The fishing village of Saint Bernard, in the Southern Leyte Province of the Philippines, saw widepsread destruction from Super Typhoon Rai in December 2021, with hundreds of thousands displaced and many homes obliterated by the storm. © UNFPA/Ezra Acayan

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In her words: A heavy monsoon, a flooded hospital and twins on the way. A midwife’s story in Bangladesh

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Shakila Parvin, a midwife in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, helped a woman pregnant with twins deliver during heavy flooding that submerged the health facility's maternity ward, knocked out power and destroyed or damaged equipment and supplies. © UNFPA Bangladesh

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UNFPA

Publication date

Mar 2021

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UNFPA

Number of pages

140

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Obstetric Fistula & Other Forms Of Female Genital Fistula

Guiding principles for clinical management and programme development

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Free maternal services are a lifeline to expectant mothers in Yemen

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A midwife hands Saba her newborn son. Saba lost two earlier pregnancies because of a lack of obstetric care in a country where only half of health facilities are operational and only two out of 10 functional health facilities provide maternal and child health services. © UNFPA Yemen

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Midwives ensure life-saving reproductive health care for women returning to Afghanistan

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Midwife Zul Haja displays some of the reproductive health care supplies she provides for women at the Zero Point clinic in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province, on the border with Pakistan. © UNFPA/Stenly Sajow

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A 12-hour walk at 7 months pregnant: Escape from the horrors of war in Ukraine

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Natasha Kuznetsova, a seven-month pregnant Ukrainian refugee, is treated for an acute kidney infection at the Sfânta Treime hospital in Chișinău, in the Republic of Moldova © UNFPA Moldova/Eduard Bîzgu

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8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

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At 14, Dankay Kanu (right, with a mentor from the 2YoungLives NGO, which helps pregnant girls in Sierra Leone continue their education and find employment) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit school for a time, she has since returned while raising her now-two-year-old son, Ishmael, alone. "To be a mother at this age is not really easy," she said, "but that will enable me to become stronger." @ UNFPA/Michael Duff

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More than $250 million needed to sustain humanitarian response for women and girls in Afghanistan

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Internally displaced persons on their way to seek free medical services from a mobile health team in Kandahar. From August to December 2021, UNFPA-supported mobile health teams reached more than 33,000 people with sexual and reproductive health services. © UNFPA Afghanistan

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Guiding principles for clinical management and programme development

Free maternal services are a lifeline to expectant mothers in Yemen

Midwives ensure life-saving reproductive health care for women returning to Afghanistan

A 12-hour walk at 7 months pregnant: Escape from the horrors of war in Ukraine

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More than $250 million needed to sustain humanitarian response for women and girls in Afghanistan

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