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Childbirth on the run: Amid mass exodus in Lebanon, medical support urgently needed

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Amal was born on 2 October the border as her mother fled the escalating hostilities in Lebanon. © Omaya AL Mekdad / UNFPA Syria

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Providing women the power of choice through contraceptive access in Lesotho

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Village health worker 'Mautloanang Mokone provides women with refills for their contraceptives. © UNFPA Lesotho / Violet Maraisane

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Boosting trust and skilled birth attendance in Cameroon’s health facilities

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Midwife Stella Tchiwobe outside the UNFPA-supported health facility in Bana, in western Cameroon. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon

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Journeys of motherhood and hope in northwest Syria

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Alaa Nabeel holds her newborn daughter in the Medina Maternity and Neonatal Hospital in Idlib, northwest Syria. Credit: Shafak Organization.

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Incorporating culture into care: One Afrodescendent midwife’s journey towards ending maternal deaths in Costa Rica

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Midwife Siannie Palmer supports women of African and indigenous descent in Sixaola, Puerto Viejo. © UNFPA Costa Rica / Juan Manuel Fernández

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“Hope had no place in our hearts”: UNFPA mobile health teams treat pregnant women fleeing violence in Sudan

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A health worker from a UNFPA-supported mobile unit attends to a woman who has been displaced in Khartoum, Sudan. Credit: UNFPA Sudan

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“It’s a burning issue”: How one midwife is harnessing new technology to support mothers and newborns in India

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Three years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, meet the midwife who stayed, delivered – and saved lives

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Midwife Mariza Ahmadi assisted Ms. Sughra to safely deliver her son, Farhad, at the Ahangaran family health house in the remote Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan

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Respectful maternity care in Paraguay puts women's autonomy at the centre of childbirth

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Claudelina Ortellado Portillo gave birth for the first time at age 39 in the Katuete Public Health Centre in Paraguay. © UNFPA Paraguay/Edson Riveiro

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“Bringing smiles to mothers and babies”: Midwives promote safe births at Nimbo health centre in Côte D’Ivoire

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Childbirth on the run: Amid mass exodus in Lebanon, medical support urgently needed

Providing women the power of choice through contraceptive access in Lesotho

Boosting trust and skilled birth attendance in Cameroon’s health facilities

Journeys of motherhood and hope in northwest Syria

Incorporating culture into care: One Afrodescendent midwife’s journey towards ending maternal deaths in Costa Rica

“Hope had no place in our hearts”: UNFPA mobile health teams treat pregnant women fleeing violence in Sudan

“It’s a burning issue”: How one midwife is harnessing new technology to support mothers and newborns in India

Three years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, meet the midwife who stayed, delivered – and saved lives

Respectful maternity care in Paraguay puts women's autonomy at the centre of childbirth

“Bringing smiles to mothers and babies”: Midwives promote safe births at Nimbo health centre in Côte D’Ivoire

Childbirth on the run: Amid mass exodus in Lebanon, medical support urgently needed

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