News

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

calendar_today04 May 2022

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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News

5 things to know about motherhood

calendar_today03 May 2022

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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Press release

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

calendar_today16 May 2022

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News

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

calendar_today19 April 2022

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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News story

Ukrainian refugees build new lives far from home

calendar_today05 April 2022

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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News story

Free maternal services are a lifeline to expectant mothers in Yemen

calendar_today24 March 2022

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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Press release

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

calendar_today30 March 2022

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Press release

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

calendar_today15 March 2022

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News story

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

calendar_today07 March 2022

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

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

calendar_today08 March 2022

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