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UNFPA Democratic Republic of the Congo Situation Report - Humanitarian Response Scale up: Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu Provinces (01-31 August 2023)

Resource date: Sep 2023

Publisher: UNFPA

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Portable ultrasounds give pregnant women a ray of hope amid crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Anita Bosco, 35, receives an ultrasound scan from UNFPA midwife Kavira Kamate at the Kanyaruchinya health centre in North Kivu, close to the Bujari camp for people displaced by ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu
  • 27 September 2023
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Midwives save lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ‌

Published on: 01/09/2023

Amid conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, midwives deployed by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—are providing life-saving care for pregnant women in need.

Find out more about our ongoing humanitarian response to the crisis here.

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Beating the odds: Resilience, hope and safe births at a UNFPA mobile clinic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Midwife Fyfy Omoyi hands Ms. Bembeleza her newborn, who was delivered safely at the UNFPA mobile health clinic at the Bulengo displacement camp. The camp is currently sheltering more than 100,000 people who have fled brutal conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ©UNFPA DRC/Jonas Yunus
  • 31 August 2023
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UNFPA Humanitarian Response in DRC: Situation Report - July 2023

Resource date: Jul 2023

Publisher: UNFPA DRC

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“Sometimes she was desperate”: How survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are healing with the help of UNFPA’s frontline workers

Anny* and her daughter were raped at gunpoint while collecting firewood near the Bulengo camp for internally displaced people, where they are taking shelter from the conflict in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA DRC/Junior Mayindu
  • 18 August 2023
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UNFPA mobile clinic helps women give birth safely during crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Midwives working in UNFPA’s mobile clinic attend to a pregnant woman who was forced to flee her home for a temporary displacement camp in Rusayo, North Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA/Junior Mayindu
  • 08 May 2023
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