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After tragedy, refugee family finds safety and community in Türkiye

calendar_today19 June 2020

Outreach workers visit refugee communities to help improve access to social services among the most vulnerable. © UNFPA Türkiye/Utku Tonguç Topal
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Mobile health teams bring life-saving care to fragile communities in Afghanistan

calendar_today27 August 2019

A midwife performs an antenatal check up during a mobile health team visit in Nangarhar Province. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Treatment for traumatic childbirth injury gives new hope to women in Afghanistan

calendar_today22 May 2019

Farah* recently received surgical treatment for obstetric fistula. She says she can now "live a normal life." © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate

calendar_today10 July 2018

Family health houses are helping midwives provide reproductive health care in far-flung parts of Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Midwifery hotline offers emergency support in Afghanistan

calendar_today02 August 2017

Expert midwife Tahira Nazari provides support to health workers at the Midwifery Helpline in Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil
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With a midwife’s help, quadruplets are safely delivered in remote Afghanistan

calendar_today16 May 2016

An expectant mother receives a check up at the Qaramat Family Health House in Afghanistan's central highlands. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Acceptance of family planning grows in Afghanistan, but myths linger

calendar_today23 November 2015

Nargis, a midwife, provides family planning counselling in Herat, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil
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Phone line answers burning questions of Afghan youth

calendar_today09 November 2015

Young people in Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan. A UNFPA-supported hotline is helping Afghanistan's youth learn about their health and rights. © UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein
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Midwives help lower Afghanistan's towering maternal death rate

calendar_today07 January 2015

Fahima Nazary, head of midwifery at the CURE Hospital in Kabul, looks over a mother and newborn. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Rada Akbar
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Conducting a Social, Demographic and Economic Survey of Afghanistan

calendar_today29 June 2012

Training enumerators is one of many steps in the complex process of data collection.
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