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A chance to breathe: How life-saving incubators are transforming newborn care in Somalia

A midwife holds twins at a UNFPA-supported neonatal care health facility in Baidoa, Somalia. © Reado

22 July 2025

“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.

Mobile health teams: On the road saving lives in Afghanistan’s most remote areas

A new mother is examined by a mobile health team midwife in Afghanistan. © UNFPA/Afghanistan

19 November 2021

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

Health experts call for renewed focus on maternal, child deaths

Preventable maternal and newborn deaths continue to plague much of the world. Women and their newborns wait for care at a UNFPA-supported health centre in Haiti. © Jared Chambers

27 October 2015

Grim but essential, autopsies are saving lives in Bangladesh

Asta Banu and her sister-in-law, Mos Dilifa Begum, work with Gulam Mostafa on a verbal autopsy. Learning the cause of Ms. Banu's son's death could help spare others the same fate. © Nicolas Axelrod/Ruom for UNFPA

20 October 2015