Updates

With Sweden, strengthening midwifery care worldwide

16 Dec 2019

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem meets with midwifery students at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. © UNFPA/Pernille Fenger
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News

In this Comorian community, an ambulance horn is music to one’s ears

The ambulance, provided in 2011, has eased the cost and difficulty of receiving emergency maternal and paediatric care. © UNFPA/Nasser Youssouf
  • 03 September 2019
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News

Joy after a frightening preterm delivery in Liberia

Doctors, nurses and midwives celebrate with Anna Bondo as she leaves the Neonatal Unit with her daughter Dorcas. © UNFPA Liberia
  • 16 September 2019
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Publication

Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017

Estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division

Number of pages: 104

Publication date: 19 Sep 2019

Author: UNFPA, World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Bank Group, the United Nations Population Division

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News

A graduate at 47, new midwife triumphs over life’s trials

Ms. Akongo prepares to graduate. Neither tragedy nor age could deter her from pursuing her dreams. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Alano
  • 08 July 2019
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News

Midwives save lives – but more support for midwifery is needed

Midwife Imama (left) checks on Salma and her newborn in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin
  • 04 June 2019
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News

Barcode technology transforms access to family planning in the Philippines

Ms. Bedla and midwife Ms. Ruanto at the San Roque health centre. © UNFPA Philippines/Reginald Sarmenta
  • 03 June 2019
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Fourth Global Midwifery Symposium

02 June 2019

Vancouver Convention Center, Room 110

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Midwives Call for an Enabling Environment to Transform Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes

News

Training new midwives in storm-hit Mozambique

Ms. Nana says she wanted to work as a midwife to help improve family planning use. © UNFPA/Natalia da Luz
  • 29 May 2019
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News

Safe pregnancies for displaced mothers as mobile clinics reach deep into Kachin camps

Without visiting the mobile clinic, Ja Htoi's condition would have gone unnoticed. © UNFPA Myanmar/Yenny Gamming
  • 14 May 2019
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