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Providing women the power of choice through contraceptive access in Lesotho

Village health worker 'Mautloanang Mokone provides women with refills for their contraceptives. © UNFPA Lesotho / Violet Maraisane
  • 25 September 2024
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Boosting trust and skilled birth attendance in Cameroon’s health facilities

Midwife Stella Tchiwobe outside the UNFPA-supported health facility in Bana, in western Cameroon. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon
  • 02 October 2024
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Journeys of motherhood and hope in northwest Syria

Alaa Nabeel holds her newborn daughter in the Medina Maternity and Neonatal Hospital in Idlib, northwest Syria. Credit: Shafak Organization.
  • 17 September 2024
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Incorporating culture into care: One Afrodescendent midwife’s journey towards ending maternal deaths in Costa Rica

Midwife Siannie Palmer supports women of African and indigenous descent in Sixaola, Puerto Viejo. © UNFPA Costa Rica / Juan Manuel Fernández
  • 29 August 2024
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“Hope had no place in our hearts”: UNFPA mobile health teams treat pregnant women fleeing violence in Sudan

A health worker from a UNFPA-supported mobile unit attends to a woman who has been displaced in Khartoum, Sudan. Credit: UNFPA Sudan
  • 04 September 2024
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“It’s a burning issue”: How one midwife is harnessing new technology to support mothers and newborns in India

Lovepreet Saini sits at her desk at the National Midwife Training Institute in Punjab, India. © Maternity Foundation
  • 25 August 2024
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Three years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, meet the midwife who stayed, delivered – and saved lives

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
  • 21 August 2024
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Respectful maternity care in Paraguay puts women's autonomy at the centre of childbirth

Claudelina Ortellado Portillo gave birth for the first time at age 39 in the Katuete Public Health Centre in Paraguay. © UNFPA Paraguay/Edson Riveiro
  • 23 July 2024
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“Bringing smiles to mothers and babies”: Midwives promote safe births at Nimbo health centre in Côte D’Ivoire

Rosine Gnohou holds her second daughter. © UNFPA/Guillaume Baleir
  • 30 July 2024
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Belgium commits 3 million euros to UNFPA to help end preventable maternal and newborn deaths

08 Jul 2024

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