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Canada provides $21 million to boost access to family planning, reproductive health services in Pakistan

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A doctor explains the benefits and impact of family planning in a mobile clinic in Chakwal, Punjab. © UNFPA/Asad Zaidi

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In the Sahel, where motherhood is deadliest, midwives are saving lives

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The first woman to give birth at Fatoumata Diallo's clinic named her daughter after the midwife. © Vincent Tremeau/World Bank

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In 10 years, the world could achieve three transformative results, at a price tag of only $264 billion, according to new research unveiled at the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25. © UNFPA Uganda

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With Sweden, strengthening midwifery care worldwide

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UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem meets with midwifery students at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. © UNFPA/Pernille Fenger

UN Joint Programme on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health

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Life-saving services at risk as humanitarian funding dries up in Yemen

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Om Asma and her baby survived thanks to a Caesarean section delivery at one of the few UNFPA-supported hospitals still open in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen

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In this Comorian community, an ambulance horn is music to one’s ears

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The ambulance, provided in 2011, has eased the cost and difficulty of receiving emergency maternal and paediatric care. © UNFPA/Nasser Youssouf

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Joy after a frightening preterm delivery in Liberia

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Doctors, nurses and midwives celebrate with Anna Bondo as she leaves the Neonatal Unit with her daughter Dorcas. © UNFPA Liberia

Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017

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Sep 2019

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UNFPA, World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Bank Group, the United Nations Population Division

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Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017

Estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division

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In this Comorian community, an ambulance horn is music to one’s ears

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