News

Contraceptives reach rural women through pioneering system

Midwife Nan Win Phyu at the Nam Khoke Rural Health Centre uses a family planning wheel to explain contraceptive options. © UNFPA Myanmar/Si Thu Soe Moe
  • 31 July 2017
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In Bangladesh’s tea gardens, saving mothers and newborns

Anjana rests with her newborn baby in Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. Both mother and baby survived an obstructed labour, thanks to the intervention of a midwife. © CIPRB/Animesh Biswas
  • 11 July 2017
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Midwifery hotline offers emergency support in Afghanistan

Expert midwife Tahira Nazari provides support to health workers at the Midwifery Helpline in Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil
  • 02 August 2017
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News

Cursed no more – women in western Ethiopia reject childbirth alone in the bush

Women participate in a community discussion about ending practices that are harmful to women and girls. In this session, they are talking about child marriage. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Meron Negash
  • 28 July 2017
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News

“I thought I might die”: Pregnant women struggle to access care in embattled Syria

Ruqayya and her newborn recover at the Pan-Armenian Charity clinic, outside the Al-Areesheh displacement camp in north-eastern Syria. © UNFPA Syria
  • 26 July 2017
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Leaders around the world commit support for voluntary family planning

Kate and Samuel Opio with their twins at Inomo Health Centre III, in Uganda's Apac District. They now plan to use a modern contraceptive method. © UNFPA/Prossy Jonker Nakanjako
  • 14 July 2017
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Annual Report

H6 Partnership Annual Report 2016

Harnessing the collective strengths of the UN system to improve the health of women, children and adolescents everywhere

Number of pages: 125

Publication date: 15 Jun 2017

Publisher: UNFPA on behalf of H6

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One year after Ebola’s end, a look at the needs of women and girls

19 June 2017

News

One year after Ebola’s end, Sierra Leone's midwives help mend health system

Midwifery students listen to a fetal heartbeat. A new generation of midwives will shore up reproductive health care in Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone. © Olivia Acland, United Nations
  • 19 June 2017
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News

Violence in Marawi displaces thousands of pregnant women and new mothers

A family opens up a UNFPA-supplied dignity kit at the evacuation centre in the Moneerah Integrated School. © UNFPA
  • 03 July 2017
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