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Midwives in Uganda ramp up action against postpartum bleeding, a leading cause of maternal death

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Midwives learn up-to-date tools and methods for detecting and treating postpartum haemorrhage at a UNFPA-supported training in Kampala. © UNFPA Uganda
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05 May 2025

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UNFPA Warns of Devastating Impact of Funding Cuts on Midwife Support in Crisis-Hit Countries

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Five ways Sweden is supporting the world’s maternal health heroes: Midwives

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Midwives are caring for displaced pregnant women in Chad

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Midwives are caring for displaced pregnant women in Chad

Midwives are caring for displaced pregnant women in Chad

Florence is a midwife supported by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—in Chad.

Over 13,000 people, including many pregnant women, have been displaced by severe flooding across the country. 

Now more than ever, her life-saving work is necessary.

See how Florence is making motherhood safer for pregnant women affected by this humanitarian crisis.

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“I came to help my sisters”: As Chad grapples with record floods and a refugee crisis, midwives are bridging the divide

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A woman collects clean drinking water in a camp sheltering more than 4,000 displaced people after the Chari River flooded in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, in October 2024. Credit: © UNFPA Chad / Karel Prinsloo
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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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