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“Hope had no place in our hearts”: UNFPA mobile health teams treat pregnant women fleeing violence in Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Under shelling and gunfire, 32-year-old Esraa cradled her newborn son. As the war in Sudan broke out in April 2023, she was trying to reach a health clinic for treatment for her baby, who had been…
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Four ways to build positive relationships and achieve good sexual health
UNITED NATIONS, New York – Everyone has the right to enjoy sexual health, and to engage in safe, satisfying and fulfilling relationships that honour their bodily autonomy and uphold gender equality. But no one is born…
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Incorporating culture into care: One Afrodescendent midwife’s journey towards ending maternal deaths in Costa Rica
SIXAOLA, Costa Rica – ”How can we incorporate our ancestral practices without forgetting everything that has already been achieved in public health?”
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As Russian air strikes escalate against Ukraine, a hospital in Kyiv struggles to care for pregnant women and newborns
KYIV, Ukraine — “When the alarm went off, we were all rushed into the shelter,” said Oksana, who is 26 weeks pregnant. “Even the tiniest babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were brought down by nurses and aides…
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“It’s a burning issue”: How one midwife is harnessing new technology to support mothers and newborns in India
LUDHIANA, India/UNITED NATIONS, New York – As a midwife, Lovepreet Saini is always on the lookout for new ways to help mothers.
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Three years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, meet the midwife who stayed, delivered – and saved lives
BAMYAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan – “If I had left, a mother or a baby could have died. I stayed because people, especially pregnant women, needed my support.”
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Health and humanitarian workers face record violence: Here are 5 reasons the world must take action
UNITED NATIONS, New York – There were more than 1,500 attacks on health facilities last year. More than 280 humanitarians and at least 750 health workers and patients were killed. These numbers were racked up not on…
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Peer-to-peer information is power: The hotline equipping young people in Paraguay to exert their rights
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay – Hardly a day goes by when the phone doesn’t ring: Young people call and write to Paraguay’s peer-to-peer, comprehensive sexuality education hotline constantly to ask about menstruation, sexually…
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Empowering indigenous women in Venezuela to become mothers by choice, not chance
ZULIA, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela – “The last time I was in labour, I was on the brink of death,” said Omaira Opikuko, a member of the Yukpa indigenous community in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
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