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Humanitarian response enables safe childbirth amid Cameroon’s catastrophic floods

calendar_today14 October 2024

A couple affected by violence and flooding in Mada, Far North Cameroon, received a baby box kit provided by UNFPA. © UNFPA Cameroon/Samuel Sawalda
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Boosting trust and skilled birth attendance in Cameroon’s health facilities

calendar_today02 October 2024

Midwife Stella Tchiwobe outside the UNFPA-supported health facility in Bana, in western Cameroon. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon
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“They are like family”: Mobile health workers care for women and girls uprooted by conflict in Sudan

calendar_today24 September 2024

Women and girls who have been displaced from their homes take refuge in a bus shelter. © UNFPA Sudan / Sufian Abdul-Mouty
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“A race against time”: Djamila’s journey to hospital by canoe in flood-ravaged Cameroon

calendar_today11 September 2024

A pregnant woman is stranded by her house amid recent flooding in Cameroon’s Far North region. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon / Samuel Sawalda
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“Hope had no place in our hearts”: UNFPA mobile health teams treat pregnant women fleeing violence in Sudan

calendar_today04 September 2024

A health worker from a UNFPA-supported mobile unit attends to a woman who has been displaced in Khartoum, Sudan. Credit: UNFPA Sudan
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Health and humanitarian workers face record violence: Here are 5 reasons the world must take action

calendar_today18 August 2024

The Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza was completely destroyed following a bombing raid by Israeli forces. © UNFPA/Dominic Allen
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“No one is spared”: Sexual violence wielded as a weapon in Haiti’s humanitarian crisis

calendar_today26 June 2024

Edrish Justilien is a psychologist at the UNFPA-supported Petite Place Cazeau Hospital in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. © UNFPA Haiti/Wendy Desert
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In an increasingly volatile world, support for women and girls must continue, UNFPA urges

calendar_today21 June 2024

Reproductive health kits in Ukraine. Conflict in Ukraine and elsewhere is contributing to significant global uncertainty. © UNFPA Ukraine/Mark Kachuro
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Sexual violence and conflict in Sudan: A war on the bodies of women and girls

calendar_today18 June 2024

Sudan is in the grips of a humanitarian catastrophe. Up to 12 million people have fled their homes, 2 million of them to unstable neighbouring countries, and famine is looming in multiple areas.​​​​​​​ © UNFPA Sudan
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How a teenage mother in Cameroon triumphed over child marriage and sexual violence amid conflict  

calendar_today07 June 2024

UNFPA has deployed 34 midwives and a team of social workers offering life-saving health care and protection services to vulnerable women and girls in remote and hard-to-reach areas of the Far North Region in Cameroon. © UNFPA Cameroon/Samuel Sawalda
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