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“It’s a burning issue”: How one midwife is harnessing new technology to support mothers and newborns in India

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Lovepreet Saini sits at her desk at the National Midwife Training Institute in Punjab, India. © Maternity Foundation
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Three years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, meet the midwife who stayed, delivered – and saved lives

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Midwife Mariza Ahmadi assisted Ms. Sughra to safely deliver her son, Farhad, at the Ahangaran family health house in the remote Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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“Bringing smiles to mothers and babies”: Midwives promote safe births at Nimbo health centre in Côte D’Ivoire

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Rosine Gnohou holds her second daughter. © UNFPA/Guillaume Baleir
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Between conflict and climate crises, midwives deliver hope for mothers and newborns in Yemen

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When Mona began working as a midwife in her local health centre 30 years ago, she was the first in Yemen’s Hadramout Governorate. © UNFPA Yemen
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How a teenage mother in Cameroon triumphed over child marriage and sexual violence amid conflict  

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UNFPA has deployed 34 midwives and a team of social workers offering life-saving health care and protection services to vulnerable women and girls in remote and hard-to-reach areas of the Far North Region in Cameroon. © UNFPA Cameroon/Samuel Sawalda
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Heroic midwives save lives in northwest Syria

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Heroic midwives save lives in northwest Syria

Heroic midwives save lives in northwest Syria

After 13 years of conflict, midwives in northwest Syria are saving lives.

See how crucial midwives are to ensuring pregnant women in need can give birth safely and find out more about how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting women and girls in Syria. Learn more

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Hero’s journey: How UNFPA helps mothers in Madagascar to access emergency obstetric care

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Samueline Razafindravao is one of millions of women who intended to give birth at home in Madagascar in recent years. “I was worried about the expense of going to hospital,” she said. © UN News/Daniel Dickinson
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Babies are dying in Gaza hospital due to lack of ventilators

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Babies are dying in Gaza hospital due to lack of ventilators

Babies are dying in Gaza hospital due to lack of ventilators

“Most babies will die.”

There aren’t enough ventilators at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah, Gaza to support the babies being born there.

Let Dr. Ahmed Al-Shaer, Deputy Head of the Incubator Care Unit at the hospital, describe the desperate situation and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding to mothers and babies in need.