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In Angola, young people help shatter the stigma around comprehensive sexuality education
LUANDA, Angola – Silvia Francisco, 31, was struggling with a dilemma. She was concerned about a family member who wasn’t seeking the medical treatment she urgently needed, because she feared being ostracized if anyone…
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Lives of pregnant women and newborns at risk in Sudan as hospitals run out of fuel
KHARTOUM, Sudan – “We are running out of fuel. If the electricity cuts persist, we don’t know how we will be able to assist pregnant women giving birth a week from now,” said Sarah, a midwife at the Ombada Hospital in…
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“We are making a difference”: Advocating against period poverty and female genital mutilation in The Gambia
BASSE, The Gambia – “When a girl starts to menstruate, that's when the problems usually start,” said Ndeye Rose Sarr, UNFPA’s representative in The Gambia.
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Restoring hope, rebuilding lives: A day in the life of a fistula surgeon in Zambia
NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCE, Zambia – Around the world, half a million women and girls are thought to be living with obstetric fistula, a serious childbirth injury that can cause incontinence and result in significant…
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Prevention, treatment, reintegration and advocacy: How UNFPA and partners work to end obstetric fistula
UNITED NATIONS, New York – According to an African proverb, “the sun should not rise or set twice on a labouring woman”.
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Youth-friendly services scaling up in Kazakhstan, offering critical sexual and reproductive health care
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – "It was my first time with my boyfriend. We didn’t use a condom,” 17-year-old Amina* told UNFPA at one of the youth-friendly health centres in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s biggest city.
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“Why are we excluded?": UNFPA distributes dignity kits to transgender women in Bangladesh following disastrous flooding
NETROKONA/SUNAMGANJ, Bangladesh – “During the flood, everyone in my village ran to seek shelter,” Ananya, a transgender woman, told UNFPA in 2022. “But we were not allowed to stay at the same shelter.”
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UNFPA mobile clinic helps women give birth safely during crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
NORTH KIVU PROVINCE, Democratic Republic of the Congo – “We heard gunshots and fled. I was seven months pregnant,” said Tantine, a 30-year-old mother of five children from Rusayo, in the North Kivu province.
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3 months on from the earthquakes, 5 reasons women and girls in Syria and Türkiye still need your support
SYRIA/TÜRKIYE – “I feel very broken. I’m trying to hold on for the sake of my children, because they are extremely exhausted after the earthquake – I don’t want anything to disturb them anymore.”
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