News

A chance to breathe: How life-saving incubators are transforming newborn care in Somalia

A midwife holds twins at a UNFPA-supported neonatal care health facility in Baidoa, Somalia. © Reado
  • 22 July 2025
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Improving health and well-being for women and newborns: Launch of the Midwifery Accelerator

07 April 2025

United Nations Headquarters

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Publication

Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2023: Estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division

Publication date: 07 Apr 2025

Publisher: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division

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Press Release

Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn

07 April 2025

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Press Release

Urgent call for country leadership and global solidarity to End Maternal and Newborn Deaths by 2030

29 April 2024

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News

How UNFPA helps mothers around the world embrace their right to good health and safe pregnancy

When mother-of-four Majeda Begum faced complications during childbirth, her transfer to a Dhaka hospital was facilitated by a new app. © BOX Office
  • 05 April 2024
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News

Bonded for life: A UNFPA-supported midwifery student in Gaza delivers her own baby sister

Raneen’s midwifery training helped her deliver her own baby sister during an emergency in Gaza. © UNFPA Palestine
  • 29 June 2023
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Publication

Maternal Health Analysis of Women and Girls of African Descent in the Americas

Number of pages: 27

Publication date: 12 Jul 2023

Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF, UN-Women, PAHO, NBEC

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News

“They have to fight”: People of African descent face deadly, systemic racism and sexism in health sectors across the Americas, UNFPA reports

Dr. Palmer talks with a UNFPA staff member outside the clinic in La Palma, where she makes visits once per month to women in underserved indigenous communities. © UNFPA Costa Rica
  • 12 July 2023
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Press Release

Deadly outcomes: Pregnant Afrodescendent women are abused and neglected due to systemic racism and sexism in health systems across the Americas, new UNFPA report finds

12 July 2023

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