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

Ms. Jepeu at her office with colleagues and patients. © UNFPA Lao PDR
  • 22 September 2022
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Midwives in Afghanistan defy constraints and crises to save lives of women and newborns

Midwife Minaz Bibi provides midwifery services for women affected by the earthquake in the Gayan district of Paktika, Afghanistan, in June 2022. © UNFPA Afghanistan
  • 17 August 2022
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The journey to becoming a midwife in Mexico

Published on: 07/07/2022

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Gender and income inequalities driving teenage motherhood in developing countries, new report confirms

Haiti – Lumilene*, 15, lives with her parents and her 6-month-old daughter in a camp for people displaced by the earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010. She is one of many child mothers in the camp, where violence against girls and women is rife. © UNFPA/Plan International/Pieter ten Hoopen
  • 05 July 2022
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UNFPA research reveals that nearly a third of all women in developing countries become mothers during adolescence

05 July 2022

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Mid-term evaluation of the Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Phase III 2018-2022

Mid-term evaluation of the Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Phase III 2018-2022

Resource date: 25 Jul 2022

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With emergency obstetric care elusive, pregnant women in Yemen face tragic consequences

A pregnant woman in an internally displaced persons camp in Aden Governorate, Yemen. Because of funding cuts, UNFPA – the leading provider of reproductive health services in the country – has had to scale back operations by 25 per cent so far this year. Of the 1.3 million women who will give birth in 2022, an estimated 195,000 will develop complications requiring life-saving medical assistance. © UNFPA Yemen
  • 15 June 2022
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From cyclones to safe births, midwives stay and deliver in Madagascar

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
  • 08 June 2022
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Family health houses save lives, employ women, in rural Afghanistan

Midwife Laila Amini checks on a mother and newborn at the Arkalik Village Family Health House. Photo Image courtesy of AADA.
  • 13 May 2022
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