News

Cursed no more – women in western Ethiopia reject childbirth alone in the bush

Women participate in a community discussion about ending practices that are harmful to women and girls. In this session, they are talking about child marriage. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Meron Negash
  • 28 July 2017
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“I thought I might die”: Pregnant women struggle to access care in embattled Syria

Ruqayya and her newborn recover at the Pan-Armenian Charity clinic, outside the Al-Areesheh displacement camp in north-eastern Syria. © UNFPA Syria
  • 26 July 2017
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To secure a better future, teens in Sierra Leone look to family planning

Aminata Kabba became pregnant at 15. She says she wishes she had known about family planning. © MSSL
  • 10 July 2017
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Yemen’s deadly cholera outbreak puts pregnant women in danger

Dr. Farea at 22 May Hospital, in Sana’a, checks in on Ibtisam, a pregnant woman with cholera. © UNFPA Yemen
  • 21 July 2017
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After devastating birth injuries, 33 women’s lives transformed

A young woman at a fistula-repair campaign in Batouri, Cameroon. Obstetric fistula is a life-altering childbirth injury that afflicts the world's most marginalized women. But it can be repaired – and prevented. © UNFPA Cameroon/Olive Bonga
  • 14 July 2017
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Leaders around the world commit support for voluntary family planning

Kate and Samuel Opio with their twins at Inomo Health Centre III, in Uganda's Apac District. They now plan to use a modern contraceptive method. © UNFPA/Prossy Jonker Nakanjako
  • 14 July 2017
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Annual Report

H6 Partnership Annual Report 2016

Harnessing the collective strengths of the UN system to improve the health of women, children and adolescents everywhere

Number of pages: 125

Publication date: 15 Jun 2017

Publisher: UNFPA on behalf of H6

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One year after Ebola’s end, a look at the needs of women and girls

19 June 2017

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Midwives offer care, dignity and a lifeline for Haiti's mothers

"We are rewarded when we hear the newborn’s cry and see the mother’s smile," said midwife Résia Pierre Pierre (right). © UNFPA Haiti
  • 04 May 2017
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One year after Ebola’s end, Sierra Leone's midwives help mend health system

Midwifery students listen to a fetal heartbeat. A new generation of midwives will shore up reproductive health care in Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone. © Olivia Acland, United Nations
  • 19 June 2017
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