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Perilous conditions for pregnant women displaced in northern Syria

calendar_today19 March 2018

A UNFPA-supported mobile team performs an ultrasound for a pregnant woman displaced from Afrin. © UNFPA Syria/Sufian Abdulmouty
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Dispatches from the road: UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd on the horrors facing Rohingya refugees

calendar_today26 February 2018

UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador visits Rohingya refugee women at a women-friendly space in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Six months ago, a massive influx of refugees began to pour into Bangladesh, fleeing the violence in Myanmar. © UNFPA/Lauren Anders Brown
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Mayon volcano eruption displaces pregnant women and new mothers in Philippines

calendar_today22 February 2018

Mount Mayon volcano erupted in January, affecting over 88,000 people. © OCHA/G. Arevalo
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Escaping violence, refugee mothers in Angola find relief in safe childbirth

calendar_today21 February 2018

Yvonne Mboi gave birth to healthy twins after fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNFPA/Tiril Skarstein
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Displaced by crisis, South Sudan midwifery students focus on saving mothers

calendar_today09 February 2018

Nyomon Lilian attends to a mother and her newborn at the Juba Teaching Hospital. © UNFPA South Sudan
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Promoting safe pregnancy in remote Myanmar

calendar_today07 February 2018

Promoting safe pregnancy in remote Myanmar

Promoting safe pregnancy in remote Myanmar

When Hlei was pregnant with her third child, her midwife detected a serious complication. Every year, 2,800 women in Myanmar die in childbirth and pregnancy, but Hlei survived. The correct diagnosis by a skilled midwife saved her life. UNFPA supports midwifery training in Myanmar, and is helping the government expand the midwifery workforce, with the goal of ensuring every mother has access to skilled care. 

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Empowering local first responders to reach refugee and migrant women

calendar_today17 January 2018

Syrian refugee Tayma Abzali gave birth to her daughter, Helen, last September in Greece. Lynsey Addario for Time
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New clinic brings reproductive health care to Syria’s underserved Al-Tabqa

calendar_today24 January 2018

A staff member at the newly opened clinic attends to a newborn baby. Image from UNFPA Syria and Al Mawadda
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A vision of change: Pioneer spends 30 years advocating end to FGM in Sudan

calendar_today31 January 2018

Abdullah Ali Abdullah has spent 30 years working with communities in North Kordofan to encourage abandonment of female genital mutilation. © UNFPA Sudan
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