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Health facilities devastated in Hurricane Matthew: “I couldn’t have left the women there to die”

Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, unleashing the greatest devastation the country has seen since the 2010 earthquake. © UNFPA/Eddie Wright

25 October 2016

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Giving girls a voice in Zika-affected communities

Barbara, Jocelly and Maria Eduarda after attending a reproductive health seminar in Goiana, Brazil. © UNFPA Brazil/Tatiana Almeida

21 October 2016

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Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

Joint UN estimates indicate the Maldives has seen a 90 per cent decline in maternal mortality since 1990. © UNFPA/Shahina Ali

12 October 2016

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Fifty years after a terrible childbirth injury, Kenyan woman gets a new lease on life

Jumwa Kabibu Kai, 77, with Kilifi County Governor Amason Kingi, at an event raising awareness about fistula. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo

10 October 2016

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After harrowing escape, South Sudan woman welcomes healthy twins

Nyador Dagey with her newborn twins in a UNFPA-supported clinic in Bentiu. © UNFPA South Sudan/Michael Gatluak Tuok

04 October 2016

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Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

This woman's second childbirth experience was totally different from her first, she says, because she was able to deliver in the traditional vertical position. © Panorama/Carlos Gomez

29 September 2016

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Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

Residents flee brutal violence in the Rutshuru territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2012. Women give birth, even in wartime and disasters. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

21 September 2016

Saving lives through mentoring

Published on: 15/09/2016

In Burkina Faso, a mentoring programme for midwives is saving the lives of women and newborns.

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As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

A midwife delivers a baby at a health facility in Juba. At UNFPA-supported health facilities in Juba's protection camps, many of the midwives are themselves displaced people. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Calaguian Alano

16 September 2016

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Young people take the lead against Zika in Brazil

Young members of REPROTAI, a UNFPA-supported youth organization, head to the Lobato neighbourhood of Salvador. They are raising awareness of how to prevent the spread of Zika. © UNFPA/Tatiana Almeida

15 September 2016

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