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UNFPA Cameroon Humanitarian Situation Report #20 - 14 Jun 2024

Resource date: Jun 2024

Author: UNFPA Cameroon

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Cameroon faces security tensions, violence, and displacement, especially in the Northwest (NW) and Southwest (SW) regions. Despite the volatile and complex crisis, UNFPA provides sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) services to vulnerable women and girls in humanitarian hotspots. In May 2024, UNFPA supported the following:

  • 3 additional Women’s and Girls' Safe Spaces were opened

  • 350 women participated in psychosocial support activities

  • 1,409 individuals attended awareness sessions on GBV services

  • 52% of GBV case managed cases were closed in May

  • 370 military personnel were trained on protection from GBV

  • 35 midwives deployed to 21 UNFPA-supported facilities

  • 167 women and girls benefited from Inter-Agency Reproductive Health (IARH) kits and 65 baby boxes distributed

  • 6 awareness-raising sessions on SRH organized, reaching 1,700 people

  • 735 women with at least 2 antenatal care (ANC) visits were seen, 1,358 deliveries and 62 cesarean sections performed, and 143 obstetric emergencies referred

  • 4 cases of maternal death recorded, and 18 cases of neonatal deaths recorded, of which 2 were audited

  • 764 cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) diagnosed and treated

  • 80 women received life-saving post-abortion care

  • 1,281 consultations and hospitalizations recorded at UNFPA-supported health facilities

  • 65 women received baby boxes in the Far North region

  • 100 women and girls in the SW region received dignity and menstrual hygiene kits

  • 65 women received baby boxes, contributing to their postnatal psychosocial well-being

  • 350 women and girls benefitted from structured and unstructured psychosocial group activities

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