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In the West Bank, mobile healthcare teams are a lifeline amid crisis

calendar_today04 November 2024

Duaa Adwa has brought her son to the mobile healthcare team during their visit to Bethlehem’s Al Uqban Village. During past visits, the team had been unable to dispense fever medicine for Ms. Adwa’s son because of supply shortages. © UNFPA/Lisa Sabella
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The emotional cost of combating gender-based violence on the front line in Ukraine

calendar_today13 June 2024

Since the start of the full-scale invasion by Russia in February 2022, reports of multiple forms of violence have spiked in ukraine, including conflict-related sexual violence, exploitation and trafficking​​. © UNFPA Ukraine / Isaac Hurskin
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A boat clinic delivers crucial health care for women in remote villages in Benin

calendar_today10 June 2024

A boat clinic delivers crucial health care for women in remote villages in Benin

A boat clinic delivers crucial health care for women in remote villages in Benin

Women in the remote villages of Sô-Ava, Benin have limited access to reproductive health care and maternity wards.

A boat clinic, supported by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—helps deliver the services they need.

Watch UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s visit to the clinic to see how UNFPA is working to ensure rights and choices for all women and girls, no matter where they live.

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Emergency maternity care and psychosocial support for women and girls hit by floods in Afghanistan

calendar_today29 May 2024

Midwife Habiba Danish and the mobile health team members speak with women and girls affected by the floods in northern Afghanistan. © ORCD Afghanistan
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Cash assistance is a lifeline for survivors of gender-based violence in the Republic of Moldova

calendar_today27 July 2023

A team working at a mobile safe space in the Republic of Moldova takes reproductive health and gender-based violence prevention and response services to some of the hardest to reach. © UNFPA Moldova
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Across Afghanistan, resourceful midwives brave multiple barriers to ensure maternal health and safe births

calendar_today15 August 2023

Midwife Durdana Samandar says Ms. Husun could have experienced serious complications had she insisted on walking four hours to go back home to deliver her baby. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ehsanullah Popal
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UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan’s most remote villages

calendar_today16 March 2023

Midwife Suhila Rasuli on her way to visit a pregnant woman in a remote area of Nimroz province, Afghanistan. © Naqibullah Rahimi/MOVE Afghanistan
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In a deadly typhoon’s wake, a women-led mobile facility meets sexual and reproductive health needs

calendar_today14 March 2022

The Women's Health on Wheels facility in Saint Bernard in Typhoon Rai/Odette-affected Southern Leyte was stationed next to a school compound being used as an evacuation camp. The team held a day for pregnant women who were provided with sexual and reproductive health services and gender-based violence information sessions. © UNFPA Philippines
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Mobile clinics deliver last-mile reproductive health care in Madagascar

calendar_today26 March 2021

A pregnant woman en route to deliver her child at Regional Reference Hospital of Ambovombe in Androy region, Madagascar. Trips by cart can sometimes take the entire day. © UNFPA Madagascar
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