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“A race against time”: Djamila’s journey to hospital by canoe in flood-ravaged Cameroon

calendar_today11 September 2024

A pregnant woman is stranded by her house amid recent flooding in Cameroon’s Far North region. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon / Samuel Sawalda
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As Russian air strikes escalate against Ukraine, a hospital in Kyiv struggles to care for pregnant women and newborns

calendar_today27 August 2024

The Kyiv Regional Perinatal Centre, supported by UNFPA, is a critical maternity and newborn health facility in the city. Credit UNFPA Ukraine/ Isaac Hurskin
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“Haïti must rise from her ashes”: Health workers on the front lines of a spiralling crisis 

calendar_today28 March 2024

A UNFPA-supported mobile health team visits a displacement site near Haïti’s capital Port-au-Prince. © FAHDRIS/Richy Mix
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A year on from Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, tackling the onslaught on health and rights for generations of women and girls

calendar_today24 February 2023

Psychologist Victoria Semko works with a UNFPA psychosocial mobile team. She said, "When I first came back to Irpin, it was scary. There were shot-out cars and burnt tanks on the streets. The city was emptied. Absolutely everything was different.” © UNFPA Ukraine/Roman Buchko
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Midwives ensure life-saving reproductive health care for women returning to Afghanistan

calendar_today31 March 2022

Midwife Zul Haja displays some of the reproductive health care supplies she provides for women at the Zero Point clinic in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province, on the border with Pakistan. © UNFPA/Stenly Sajow
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Saving the lives of pregnant women amid escalating conflict in Syria

calendar_today07 October 2021

Health workers provide information and care the Daraa National Hospital © UNFPA/SFPA
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Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

2019

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

94

Publication

A Guide in Support of National Human Rights Institutions

Country Assessments and National Inquiries on Human Rights in the Context of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Well-being

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118-truck convoy delivers urgent aid to stranded residents in Rukban, Syria

calendar_today16 February 2019

UNFPA brought critical reproductive health supplies to resident of the settlement, where conditions are dire. © UN in Syria
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State of World Population 2012

Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

01 January 2012

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

128

State of World Population

State of World Population 2012

By Choice, Not By Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development

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The State of the World's Midwifery 2011

Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

01 January 2011

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

180

State of the World's Midwifery

The State of the World's Midwifery 2011

Delivering Health, Saving Lives

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