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Women and girls in Pakistan need urgent health and protection services amid epic flood disaster

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Two girls displaced by torrential monsoon rains and flash flooding in Pakistan sit by the roadside with the remains of their belongings in Khairpur Mirs, Sindh province. Among those affected by the emergency are nearly 130,000 pregnant women in need of urgent health services – more than 42,000 of whom are due to give birth in the next three months. © UNFPA Pakistan/Kashif Ahmed Memon

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In Lao PDR, midwives provide life-saving and culturally competent care to the country’s ethnic communities

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Ms. Jepeu at her office with colleagues and patients. © UNFPA Lao PDR

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Midwives in Afghanistan defy constraints and crises to save lives of women and newborns

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Midwife Minaz Bibi provides midwifery services for women affected by the earthquake in the Gayan district of Paktika, Afghanistan, in June 2022. © UNFPA Afghanistan

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From cyclones to safe births, midwives stay and deliver in Madagascar

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Midwife Marie Nancy Christiane holds newborn baby Noelia after helping to deliver her in a UNFPA emergency maternity tent in Mananjary, in Madagascar’s southeastern Vatovavy region. © UNFPA/Tsiry Fy-Tia Solofomihanta

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Midwife Laila Amini checks on a mother and newborn at the Arkalik Village Family Health House. Photo Image courtesy of AADA.

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In Pakistan’s remote areas, midwives ensure care beyond safe birth

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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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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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Women and girls in Pakistan need urgent health and protection services amid epic flood disaster

In Lao PDR, midwives provide life-saving and culturally competent care to the country’s ethnic communities

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Family health houses save lives, employ women, in rural Afghanistan

Global health systems must invest in midwives

In Pakistan’s remote areas, midwives ensure care beyond safe birth

Midwives continue to deliver amid uncertainty in Afghanistan

After childbirth trauma, Afghan women emerge from life in shadows

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