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Health workers lose support structures and pregnant women die: The reality of funding cuts hits in Yemen

calendar_today15 September 2025

A midwife from a UNFPA mobile health clinic assesses a pregnant woman at a displacement camp in Marib, Yemen. The mobile clinic is no longer operational due to funding cuts. ©UNFPA Yemen
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New Initiative Sets Out to Ensure 10 Million Safer Births Under the Patronage of Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark

calendar_today26 June 2025

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  • Bridging worlds: A Bolivian midwife blends traditional practices with modern medicine for safer childbirth

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Bridging worlds: A Bolivian midwife blends traditional practices with modern medicine for safer childbirth

calendar_today29 January 2025

Ana Choque, a midwife with over 45 years of experience, at the Regional Intercultural Symposium on the Maternal Health of Indigenous Women in Mexico. Credit: © UNFPA LACRO / Adrián Ibáñez
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  • A beacon of hope: How UNFPA safe rooms are transforming lives in Tajikistan

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A beacon of hope: How UNFPA safe rooms are transforming lives in Tajikistan

calendar_today11 December 2024

Obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr. Nargis Zokirova provides medical and psychosocial support to survivors of gender-based violence at the maternity house in Rudaki, Tajikistan. © UNFPA Tajikistan
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  • “Where are we supposed to go?”: Women and girls in northern Gaza endure displacement, hunger and healthcare under attack

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“Where are we supposed to go?”: Women and girls in northern Gaza endure displacement, hunger and healthcare under attack

calendar_today25 November 2024

Since 6 October 2024, some 130,000 people have been uprooted from North Gaza to Gaza city. In some displacement sites, up to 70 per cent of those sheltering are children and women. Credit: UNFPA Palestine/Media Clinic.
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  • Women deliver babies on the road and under fire as catastrophe grips Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State

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Women deliver babies on the road and under fire as catastrophe grips Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State

calendar_today12 December 2024

As violence intensifies across southeast Sudan, hundreds of thousands of people have fled Aj Jazirah State for neighbouring Gedaref State, taking refuge in cramped, makeshift camps. Credit: © UNFPA Sudan
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27 November 2024

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

calendar_today25 August 2024

Lovepreet Saini sits at her desk at the National Midwife Training Institute in Punjab, India. © Maternity Foundation
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  • Gender and income inequalities driving teenage motherhood in developing countries, new report confirms

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

calendar_today05 July 2022

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
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