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Giving girls a voice in Zika-affected communities

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Barbara, Jocelly and Maria Eduarda after attending a reproductive health seminar in Goiana, Brazil. © UNFPA Brazil/Tatiana Almeida
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Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

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Joint UN estimates indicate the Maldives has seen a 90 per cent decline in maternal mortality since 1990. © UNFPA/Shahina Ali
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Fifty years after a terrible childbirth injury, Kenyan woman gets a new lease on life

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Jumwa Kabibu Kai, 77, with Kilifi County Governor Amason Kingi, at an event raising awareness about fistula. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo
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After harrowing escape, South Sudan woman welcomes healthy twins

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Nyador Dagey with her newborn twins in a UNFPA-supported clinic in Bentiu. © UNFPA South Sudan/Michael Gatluak Tuok
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Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

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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
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Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

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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
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Saving lives through mentoring

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Saving lives through mentoring

Saving lives through mentoring

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

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

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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
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Young people take the lead against Zika in Brazil

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

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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
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