News

In Sudan, a UNFPA hospital helps women give birth safely despite flooding crisis

Health workers at the UNFPA Tunaydbah field hospital in Sudan’s eastern Gedaraf state provide critical maternal health care amid floods, conflict and an ongoing refugee crisis. © UNFPA Sudan
  • 17 January 2023
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News

As drought tightens its grip on Kenya, a motorcycle ambulance is helping women to access critical health care

The motorcycle ambulance has significantly reduced the time required to deliver essential and urgent medical assistance to local communities.© UNFPA/Luis Tato
  • 12 January 2023
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Fighting obstetric violence in Brazil with Johnson & Johnson

Published on: 12/12/2022

When she found out she was pregnant, Carolina was afraid to go to the hospital.

She had heard that in Brazil, women of color had been discriminated against and treated violently by healthcare staff.

Thanks to a programme supported by UNFPA and Johnson & Johnson, midwives like Leonor are now trained on how to respect and protect their patients’ reproductive rights.

News

Ending maternal deaths in a world of 8 billion: How midwives save lives

Simmaly and Amina attending an event honouring midwives earlier this year. © UNFPA Lao PDR
  • 17 November 2022
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Annual Report

2021 MHTF Annual Report: Strengthening Health System Resilience in the COVID-19 Era

Number of pages: 55

Publication date: 30 Sep 2022

Publisher: UNFPA

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Publication

Protect the Promise: 2022 Progress Report, Every Woman Every Child

Number of pages: 73

Publication date: 18 Oct 2022

Publisher: WHO and UNICEF

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News

Women and girls in Pakistan need urgent health and protection services amid epic flood disaster

Two girls displaced by torrential monsoon rains and flash flooding in Pakistan sit by the roadside with the remains of their belongings in Khairpur Mirs, Sindh province. Among those affected by the emergency are nearly 130,000 pregnant women in need of urgent health services – more than 42,000 of whom are due to give birth in the next three months. © UNFPA Pakistan/Kashif Ahmed Memon
  • 21 September 2022
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News

In Lao PDR, midwives provide life-saving and culturally competent care to the country’s ethnic communities

Ms. Jepeu at her office with colleagues and patients. © UNFPA Lao PDR
  • 22 September 2022
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Resources

Intensifying efforts to end obstetric fistula within a decade: Report of the Secretary-General (A/77/229)

Resource date: Jul 2022

Publisher: Office of the UN Secretary General

The UN Secretary-2022 General's report brings to the General Assembly's attention existing and new challenges to ending obstetric fistula within a decade, including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which have exacerbated the root causes of this devastating childbirth injury. The report outlines efforts made at the global, regional, and national levels and makes recommendations to intensify these efforts to end fistula by 2030, using human rights-based and gender transformative approaches.

News

Midwives in Afghanistan defy constraints and crises to save lives of women and newborns

Midwife Minaz Bibi provides midwifery services for women affected by the earthquake in the Gayan district of Paktika, Afghanistan, in June 2022. © UNFPA Afghanistan
  • 17 August 2022
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