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

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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

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

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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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Parents react to stories of mothers from around the world on Mother's Day

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Parents react to stories of mothers from around the world on Mother's Day

This Mother's Day, we invited parents into our studio to read stories of mothers from around the world. Watch what happens next…

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Empowering and investing in midwives could save millions of lives each year

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Midwives in Morocco, like Amina Al Ammari, played a critical role in responding to the pandemic while also tending to pregnant women, new mothers and newborns. © UNFPA Morocco

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Global health systems must invest in midwives

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5 things to know about motherhood

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Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world throughout the year. In Somalia, above, the day falls in March. © Tobin Jones for UNFPA

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In her words: A heavy monsoon, a flooded hospital and twins on the way. A midwife’s story in Bangladesh

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Shakila Parvin, a midwife in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, helped a woman pregnant with twins deliver during heavy flooding that submerged the health facility's maternity ward, knocked out power and destroyed or damaged equipment and supplies. © UNFPA Bangladesh

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Midwives ensure life-saving reproductive health care for women returning to Afghanistan

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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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8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

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At 14, Dankay Kanu (right, with a mentor from the 2YoungLives NGO, which helps pregnant girls in Sierra Leone continue their education and find employment) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit school for a time, she has since returned while raising her now-two-year-old son, Ishmael, alone. "To be a mother at this age is not really easy," she said, "but that will enable me to become stronger." @ UNFPA/Michael Duff

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

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

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

Parents react to stories of mothers from around the world on Mother's Day

Empowering and investing in midwives could save millions of lives each year

Global health systems must invest in midwives

5 things to know about motherhood

In her words: A heavy monsoon, a flooded hospital and twins on the way. A midwife’s story in Bangladesh

Midwives ensure life-saving reproductive health care for women returning to Afghanistan

8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

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