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UNFPA and WFP join forces to meet soaring reproductive health and nutrition needs in southern Madagascar

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Women in the Amboasary district of Madagascar’s drought-stricken Grand Sud region wait to receive sexual and reproductive health consultations from UNFPA-supported medical staff. At the same time, a WFP food donation takes place just metres away to help stem a devastating food crisis affecting some 3 million people in the region. © UNFPA/Melvis Kimbi

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5 things to know about motherhood

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Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world throughout the year. In Somalia, above, the day falls in March. © Tobin Jones for UNFPA

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UNFPA launches “2 Hours to Life” with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, supporting life-saving maternal health services in Benin, Togo and Cote d’Ivoire

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Hope on wheels: Emergency maternal health units reach farthest corners of the Philippines

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The fishing village of Saint Bernard, in the Southern Leyte Province of the Philippines, saw widepsread destruction from Super Typhoon Rai in December 2021, with hundreds of thousands displaced and many homes obliterated by the storm. © UNFPA/Ezra Acayan

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Ukrainian refugees build new lives far from home

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Ivanna Povchenuik (center) left her home in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine with her two children for the Polish border, from where they continued to Belgium, a journey that took 35 hours. © Martin Thaulow

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Free maternal services are a lifeline to expectant mothers in Yemen

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A midwife hands Saba her newborn son. Saba lost two earlier pregnancies because of a lack of obstetric care in a country where only half of health facilities are operational and only two out of 10 functional health facilities provide maternal and child health services. © UNFPA Yemen

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Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended—a global crisis, says new UNFPA report

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Women and girls continue to pay a heavy price in Yemen as the conflict slips further from global view

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In her words: “Above my house, I saw a burning missile.” An expectant mother seeks safety in the Republic of Moldova

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Daria Smirnova (right), who is nine months pregnant, left Odessa, Ukraine with her mother and young son for the Republic of Moldova, where she is staying in a placement centre in the capital city of Chișinău. © UNFPA Moldova/Adriana Bîzgu

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Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Women’s Day 2022

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UNFPA and WFP join forces to meet soaring reproductive health and nutrition needs in southern Madagascar

5 things to know about motherhood

UNFPA launches “2 Hours to Life” with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, supporting life-saving maternal health services in Benin, Togo and Cote d’Ivoire

Hope on wheels: Emergency maternal health units reach farthest corners of the Philippines

Ukrainian refugees build new lives far from home

Free maternal services are a lifeline to expectant mothers in Yemen

Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended—a global crisis, says new UNFPA report

Women and girls continue to pay a heavy price in Yemen as the conflict slips further from global view

In her words: “Above my house, I saw a burning missile.” An expectant mother seeks safety in the Republic of Moldova

Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem on International Women’s Day 2022

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