Press Release
New UNFPA report finds 30 years of progress in sexual and reproductive health has mostly ignored the most marginalized communities
16 April 2024
Press Release
16 April 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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Statement
05 April 2024
Resources
Resource date: Apr 2024
Publisher: UNFPA Haiti
Pregnant women at a camp for internally displaced people camp in south Gaza are receiving check-ups in sandy tents.
Let Dr. Mohamed Ragab describe the situation for women who have almost nothing and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding.
Resources
Resource date: Mar 2024
Author: UNFPA Haiti
Lack of access to menstrual hygiene products in Gaza is forcing many women and girls, like Bakiza (47) and her daughter, to take desperate measures.
See the impact of the support being delivered by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
Women in Gaza have to give birth on the floor at the overcrowded Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah as doctors run out of basic medical supplies.
Let UNFPA Palestine Representative Dominic Allen describe the heroic efforts of desperate medical staff helping women give birth safely and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting them.