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Women’s health needs critical as battle for Mosul intensifies

calendar_today03 November 2016

A displaced family walks under a sky blackened by burning oil wells in Qayyarah, south of Mosul. Nineteen oil wells were set ablaze as ISIL retreated from the area. © OCHA/ Themba Linden
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H6 Annual Report 2015

Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

2016

Author

UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, UNAIDS, WHO

Number of pages

112

Annual Report

H6 Annual Report 2015

2015 annual report of the H6 Joint Programme, with the collaboration of Canada and Sweden

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Rural Haiti slammed by Hurricane Matthew

calendar_today28 October 2016

Rural Haiti slammed by Hurricane Matthew

Rural Haiti slammed by Hurricane Matthew

Rural Haiti is hard to reach. Women and girls there need reproductive health care. Without urgent action, maternal deaths will rise, and vulnerability to sexual violence will increase. 

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What happens when a hurricane hits a hospital

calendar_today28 October 2016

What happens when a hurricane hits a hospital

What happens when a hurricane hits a hospital

See what happens when a hurricane hits a hospital. Beaumont Hospital, in Haiti, was devastated by Hurricane Matthew.

Some 13,000 women will give birth in hurricane-affected areas in the next three months. Thousands of them will experience complications. Without urgent action, maternal death rates will rise.

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Health facilities devastated in Hurricane Matthew: “I couldn’t have left the women there to die”

calendar_today25 October 2016

Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, unleashing the greatest devastation the country has seen since the 2010 earthquake. © UNFPA/Eddie Wright
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Cover page of State of World Population 2016

Publication date

Oct 2016

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

116

State of World Population

State of World Population 2016

10: How our future depends on a girl at this decisive age

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News

For busy garment workers in Lesotho, health care comes on wheels

calendar_today18 October 2016

’Mantina Mphohle receiving health services inside a new mobile clinic, near the factory where she works. © UNFPA Lesotho
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News

The power of 10: Ten astonishing facts about 10-year-old girls

calendar_today20 October 2016

Temawelase is a sixth-grader in rural Swaziland. Whether the world is able to achieve its development goals depends, in large part, on her fate and the fate of girls like her. ©UNFPA/Barcroft Media/Mark Lewis
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Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

calendar_today12 October 2016

Joint UN estimates indicate the Maldives has seen a 90 per cent decline in maternal mortality since 1990. © UNFPA/Shahina Ali
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News

“What our daughter has done is a miracle” – the power of one adolescent girl

calendar_today11 October 2016

Sibongile Majaura's business has saved her education and helps support her family. © UNFPA Zimbabwe/Nikita Little
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