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Fistula camp helps women and girls in Sierra Leone regain their dignity

Women and girls celebrating after their successful fistula repair surgeries at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Freetown © UNFPA Sierra Leone 2018/Angelique Reid
  • 12 June 2018
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Gambia Humanitarian Emergency

Gambia is susceptible to recurrent climate-related disasters such as drought and flooding, resulting in loss of livelihoods and food insecurity. UNFPA focuses on supporting women, girls and young people by supporting and strengthening local capacities in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence, including maternal health care, family planning and clinical management of rape.

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  • -Targets and UNFPA's populations of concern, including women of reproductive age and pregnant women, are estimated using the MISP calculator.
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All in a day's work

Published on: 14/05/2018

In Liberia, one midwife reflects on the work she has dedicated her life to. "We'll prevent so many complications. We'll also prevent neonatal death," she says. Midwives save lives. See more here.

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Escaping child marriage in Sierra Leone

Zainab Binta Jalloh was married off at age 15. Today, she is outspoken about her experience and the need for change. Image courtesy of Zainab.
  • 27 March 2018
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Republic of Korea

Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.

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Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.

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LONG DISTRICT, Lao People’s Democratic Republic – “In the past, Akha women gave birth without assistance and did not come to health centres. Most of the pregnancies were unsafe,” says 28-year-old midwife Vida Jepeu. Ms…
22 September 2022 Read Story
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – “When there is domestic violence, women need to stay in a safe house.  But when one woman called me and asked for transport, I had to tell her we didn’t have enough funds to bring her to the…
19 September 2022 Read Story
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Our hearts go out to the people of Pakistan during this devastating time, as heavy monsoon rains have flooded a third of the country, affecting more than 33 million people, of whom an estimated 650,000 are pregnant…

02 September 2022 Read Story

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Violence knows no borders: Leaders, activists take on horrors of gender-based violence

Violence against women and girls is pervasive throughout the world. A rape kit in South Sudan. © UNFPA/Tim McKulka
  • 16 March 2018
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.

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Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.

2024 | Top
Donor Global Statistics

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Partnership combines Unitaid’s record of innovative solutions in treating major diseases in low-and middle-income countries with UNFPA’s global maternal health leadership and network of midwives saving…

20 March 2024 Read Story
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CANBERRA, Australia – On International Women’s Day, the Executive Director of UNFPA Dr. Natalia Kanem is in Australia to rally the people of Australia – and the world – to the pressing cause of gender equality and what…
08 March 2024 Read Story
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MOPTI REGION, Mali – “Many women come here to give birth as a last resort,” said Kadiatou Karembé, a midwife at the Sominé Dolo hospital in Sévaré in Mopti, in central Mali. “Sometimes they spend the night on the road…
06 March 2024 Read Story

Denmark

Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.

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Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.

2024 | Top
Donor Global Statistics

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Press Release

Partnership combines Unitaid’s record of innovative solutions in treating major diseases in low-and middle-income countries with UNFPA’s global maternal health leadership and network of midwives saving…

20 March 2024 Read Story
Updates
CANBERRA, Australia – On International Women’s Day, the Executive Director of UNFPA Dr. Natalia Kanem is in Australia to rally the people of Australia – and the world – to the pressing cause of gender equality and what…
08 March 2024 Read Story
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MOPTI REGION, Mali – “Many women come here to give birth as a last resort,” said Kadiatou Karembé, a midwife at the Sominé Dolo hospital in Sévaré in Mopti, in central Mali. “Sometimes they spend the night on the road…
06 March 2024 Read Story

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For most vulnerable Nigerian women, high rates of traumatic birth injury

Women and girls are waiting for a fistula repair at Maiduguri’s State Specialist Hospital © Anne Wittenberg/UNFPA
  • 16 November 2017
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Leaders urge access to reproductive health supplies in crisis settings

Ahlam was able to safely give birth by Caesarean section at a health facility with UNFPA-provided supplies. © UNFPA Yemen/Fahmia Al-Fotih
  • 28 September 2017
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