Resources

Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story Supplementary Material

Resource date: Jun 2022

Publisher: UNFPA

This report examines trends in adolescent childbearing using techniques that focus on the most vulnerable girls, such as child mothers, girls with repeat adolescent childbearing, and births that occur in dangerously quick succession. In using these new measures, it uncovers the untold story of more than 50 years of adolescent childbearing in the world’s low- and middle-income countries.

This Supplementary Material is an annex to the full report.

Resources

Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story Executive Summary

Resource date: Jun 2022

Publisher: UNFPA

This Executive Summary provides an overview of the full report.

News

Fighting the stigma of living with HIV in Sri Lanka

The HIV prevalence rate in Sri Lanka is estimated at less than .1 per cent but self-stigma may prevent some people living with HIV from being reflected in national data. © UNFPA Sri Lanka

01 June 2022

Publication

Safe lubricants for all - Procurement specifications for lubricants used with male and female condoms (Technical brief)

Number of pages: 25

Publication date: 31 May 2022

Author: UNFPA

The lack of global specifications for safe and non-toxic personal lubricants led UNFPA and partners to develop guidance for professionals who produce, procure and distribute these products for reproductive health programmes.

This publication presents the World Health Organization/United Nations Population Fund specifications for plain lubricants to be used with male and female condoms, and addresses issues raised in the global consultation on personal lubricants convened by UNFPA, as well as key concepts and terminology.

News

5 ways the world is changing how it sees menstruation

Menstruation is increasingly understood to be a neglected issue with human right implications. Image by Vulvani, Wikimedia Commons.

26 May 2022

News

UNFPA and WFP join forces to meet soaring reproductive health and nutrition needs in southern Madagascar

Women in the Amboasary district of Madagascar’s drought-stricken Grand Sud region wait to receive sexual and reproductive health consultations from UNFPA-supported medical staff. At the same time, a WFP food donation takes place just metres away to help stem a devastating food crisis affecting some 3 million people in the region. © UNFPA/Melvis Kimbi

04 May 2022

News

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

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

04 May 2022

Statement

Global health systems must invest in midwives

05 May 2022

News

War in Ukraine shocks global food supply, putting lives at risk

A young mother and her baby are weighed before being examined for malnutrition at UNFPA-supported Marib General hospital in Yemen, a country that relies heavily on food imports. Skyrocketing food prices have increased the number of people in need of food assistance from 16.2 million in 2021 to 19 million people in 2022. © UN/Giles Clarke

27 April 2022

News

Hope on wheels: Emergency maternal health units reach farthest corners of the Philippines

The fishing village of Saint Bernard, in the Southern Leyte Province of the Philippines, saw widepsread destruction from Super Typhoon Rai in December 2021, with hundreds of thousands displaced and many homes obliterated by the storm. © UNFPA/Ezra Acayan

19 April 2022

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