News

Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

This woman's second childbirth experience was totally different from her first, she says, because she was able to deliver in the traditional vertical position. © Panorama/Carlos Gomez

29 September 2016

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Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

Residents flee brutal violence in the Rutshuru territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2012. Women give birth, even in wartime and disasters. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

21 September 2016

Saving lives through mentoring

Published on: 15/09/2016

In Burkina Faso, a mentoring programme for midwives is saving the lives of women and newborns.

News

As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

A midwife delivers a baby at a health facility in Juba. At UNFPA-supported health facilities in Juba's protection camps, many of the midwives are themselves displaced people. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Calaguian Alano

16 September 2016

News

Young people take the lead against Zika in Brazil

Young members of REPROTAI, a UNFPA-supported youth organization, head to the Lobato neighbourhood of Salvador. They are raising awareness of how to prevent the spread of Zika. © UNFPA/Tatiana Almeida

15 September 2016

News

“One-stop shop” brings life-saving HIV care, reproductive health to Botswana’s women

Rose Matuulane, 24, with one of her children. She is able to access antenatal care, cervical cancer screening, HIV testing and family planning counselling all in the same clinic visit. © UNFPA Botswana/Nchidzi Smarts

07 September 2016

Annual Report

Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2015

Number of pages: 80

Publication date: 01 Sep 2016

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

News

Giving birth amid Boko Haram insurgency; UNFPA reaching millions with care

A nurse and a survivor of the Boko Haram insurgency at an antenatal check-up. UNFPA has provided the clinic, at the GGSS displacement camp, with reproductive health kits, clean delivery kits and dignity kits. © UNFPA Nigeria

29 August 2016

News

Haitian women felled by preventable cancer; simple test to save lives

A UNFPA-supported clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, provides free cervical cancer screenings, in addition to a host of obstetric and newborn services. Early detection and treatment will save lives. © Jared Chambers

26 August 2016

Resources

1000s of lives saved during Ebola outbreak

Resource date: May 2016

Author: UNFPA Western and Central Africa Regional Office

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