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Training midwives in Madagascar to bridge a dangerous gap in maternal health care

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Midwifery students at Madagascar's Interregional Training Institute for Paramedics. ©UNFPA Madagascar
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Mobile health teams: On the road saving lives in Afghanistan’s most remote areas

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A new mother is examined by a mobile health team midwife in Afghanistan. © UNFPA/Afghanistan
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Commitment to supporting childbirth amid Afghanistan’s deteriorating security situation

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A midwife at a family health house provides care to a baby. Image taken in 2020. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Sep 2021

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UNFPA

Number of pages

56

Annual Report

Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2020

Saving lives and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on mothers and newborns

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Midwives continue to deliver amid uncertainty in Afghanistan

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UNFPA’s midwifery helpline continues to operate, providing uninterrupted life-saving obstetric support to birth attendants facing pregnancy complications and dangerous deliveries. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Midwifery training helps doctors, nurses level up their skills in rural China

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Dr. Cairen Sangji conducts an antenatal examination for a local Tibetan woman in Yushu, Qinghai Province. Image courtesy of Yushu County Maternal and Child Health Hospital
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Midwives bring portable ultrasound technology to remote communities in Kenya

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A midwife examines a pregnant woman using the portable ultrasound device. © UNFPA Kenya
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Partnering with traditional birth attendants to reach Afro-descendant and indigenous women in Colombia

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Traditional midwives are working with health systems to provide both modern and traditional care to expectant mothers. © UNFPA Colombia
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As Afghanistan grapples with surge in COVID-19 cases, one midwife shares her strength

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Mastura Zia provides maternal health services to Afghan returnees, many of them deported from neighbouring Iran. © Zaeem Abdul Rahman/UNFPA Afghanistan
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After childbirth trauma, Afghan women emerge from life in shadows

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Noorjahan laughs as she recovers from fistula surgery in Malalai Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Now, she says, "I can live." © Andrea Bruce/ NOOR
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