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Six UNFPA programmes around the world ensuring “health for all” in a world of 8 billion

UNITED NATIONS, New York – Today marks the first World Health Day that humanity will celebrate as 8 billion. 

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“I know how to listen”: Midwives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo use groundbreaking new birth model to care for pregnant survivors of sexual violence

BUKAVU, The Democratic Republic of the Congo – When 16-year-old Esther* arrived at the Panzi hospital in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, doctors confirmed her worst fear: She was pregnant. 

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After eight years of conflict and despite a fragile truce, childbirth still a matter of life and death in Yemen

DHAMAR, Yemen – “If we get some food, we first let our children eat.” Zahra, 30, is a mother of four from the village of Wusab Al Safil in Yemen’s Dhamar Governorate.

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Ensuring critical maternal health services after cyclone Freddy wreaks havoc in Malawi

NSANJE, Malawi –  Ruth Zuze was nervous. Her local disaster management committee, in the Makanga village, was broadcasting alerts about a ferocious cyclone barrelling towards Malawi’s southern coast.

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“One society, free from violence”: Training providers on caring for survivors of sexual violence in Palestine

JERICHO, Palestine – "I grew up in a patriarchal society where women have always been left behind, and this shaped my values and behaviour,” said Ayman Lubbad, a gender-based violence expert at Jericho’s government…

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Historic drought in the Horn of Africa: Women and girls fleeing one crisis for another

DAADAB, Kenya – Incessant hunger and chronic insecurity forced Rukia Yaroow Ali and her nine children to abandon their home in Jilib, Somalia, to seek shelter at the Hagadera refugee camp in northern Kenya. 

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Countering female genital mutilation in Sudan: “I didn’t know it was possible not to cut my daughter”

KHARTOUM, Sudan – “I personally experienced female genital mutilation and its harmful effects. I will not allow my daughters to be exposed to this,” said Zuha from White Nile state, in southern Sudan.

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Least responsible, hardest hit: New UNFPA brief explores climate change’s disproportionate harm on people of African descent

UNITED NATIONS, New York – In 2021, double disaster struck Haiti when Tropical Storm Grace hit the island nation just two days after it was rocked by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake.  

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Syria: Rights of women and girls hang in the balance as conflict passes 12-year mark and earthquakes deepen suffering

“For most people in Syria, life today carries very few prospects for a better future,” Rima, a young woman from Aleppo, told UNFPA. “People are giving up.”

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