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In Sudan, city’s last remaining hospital shelled: “We need support now”

calendar_today28 October 2024

A newborn in Al-Saudi Maternity Hospital after large portions of the hospital were demolished in artillery fire. © Al-Saudi Maternity Hospital
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UNFPA

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Aug 2024

Annual Report

Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2023

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Incorporating culture into care: One Afrodescendent midwife’s journey towards ending maternal deaths in Costa Rica

calendar_today29 August 2024

Midwife Siannie Palmer supports women of African and indigenous descent in Sixaola, Puerto Viejo. © UNFPA Costa Rica / Juan Manuel Fernández
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Three years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, meet the midwife who stayed, delivered – and saved lives

calendar_today21 August 2024

Midwife Mariza Ahmadi assisted Ms. Sughra to safely deliver her son, Farhad, at the Ahangaran family health house in the remote Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Respectful maternity care in Paraguay puts women's autonomy at the centre of childbirth

calendar_today23 July 2024

Claudelina Ortellado Portillo gave birth for the first time at age 39 in the Katuete Public Health Centre in Paraguay. © UNFPA Paraguay/Edson Riveiro
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“Bringing smiles to mothers and babies”: Midwives promote safe births at Nimbo health centre in Côte D’Ivoire

calendar_today30 July 2024

Rosine Gnohou holds her second daughter. © UNFPA/Guillaume Baleir
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Giving birth on Ukraine’s front line: How women and medical workers are coping under fire

calendar_today01 July 2024

Oleksandra and Oleksandr Chebotar’s baby was born in the bunker of Maternity Hospital No. 5, in Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa, which has come under consistent heavy shelling. © UNFPA Ukraine
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Pregnant women in Haiti are fleeing indiscriminate gang killing

calendar_today22 July 2024

Pregnant women in Haiti are fleeing indiscriminate gang killing

Pregnant women in Haiti are fleeing indiscriminate gang killing

Over 84,000 pregnant women in Haiti, like Mariline, lack secure access to health services due to ongoing gang violence.

See how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action to make motherhood safer and stay up to date on our ongoing humanitarian response.

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“I suffered a lot”: How UNFPA helps women in Guinea heal from obstetric fistula

calendar_today22 May 2024

Obstetric fistula survivor Kadiatou Bah lived with the condition for nearly 20 years. © UNFPA Guinea/Sayon Idovic Loua
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Between conflict and climate crises, midwives deliver hope for mothers and newborns in Yemen

calendar_today06 May 2024

When Mona began working as a midwife in her local health centre 30 years ago, she was the first in Yemen’s Hadramout Governorate. © UNFPA Yemen
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