Maternity hospital burns in Gaza amid ongoing war

Published on: 12/04/2024

“It is full of the smell of death."

The scenes of destruction in Gaza are unimaginable. Maternity wards emptied of patients and destroyed as life-saving maternal health supplies burn.

Pregnant women have nowhere to go to give birth safely.

See the levels of destruction and hear about the impact on pregnant women from Dominic Allen, Representative for UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—in Palestine on his recent visit to Khan Younis.

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Sexual violence and severe hunger surge as Sudan war passes one year

After a year of war and insecurity, a staggering 6.7 million people in Sudan need protection and response services for gender-based violence. © UNFPA Sudan/Sufian Abdul-Mouty
  • 12 April 2024
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UNFPA Palestine Situation Report #7 - 6 April, 2024

Resource date: Apr 2024

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA Palestine

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Press Release

Global Youth Dialogue in Benin Highlights Urgency for Swifter Progress and Youth Involvement in Reproductive Health and Rights

05 April 2024

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Haiti Situation Report #1 - 22 March 2024

Resource date: Mar 2024

Author: UNFPA Haiti

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UNFPA Overview of Funding Needs for the Regional Syria Crisis Response 2024

Resource date: Jan 2024

Author: UNFPA Syria

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Pregnant woman in Gaza suffers miscarriage

Published on: 20/11/2023

Alaa is one of the many pregnant women in Gaza who have been losing their babies from stress and malnutrition.

Hear her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is taking action to make motherhood safer.

Learn more here.

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An unequal world: Designing a safer, healthier place for women and girls in Argentina, Cameroon and Uganda

Equity 2030 seeks to redesign the world with women in mind. © UNFPA
  • 18 December 2023
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$1.2 billion needed in urgent UNFPA appeal for women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in 2024

Maryam waits to see a counsellor at a UNFPA mobile health clinic in Zendajan district in Afghanistan after the 7 October earthquake. The teams were on the ground providing life-saving maternal and reproductive health services and psychosocial support immediately after the disaster. © UNFPA Afghanistan
  • 12 December 2023
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