UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem spends time with patients in a maternity ward at the Al Shaab Hospital in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen

Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem tours the hospital maternity ward in Sudan's Blue Nile state and gets a first-hand view of UNFPA’s life-saving reproductive health care amidst the COVID19 pandemic. © UNFPA Sudan 

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem holds a newborn baby at a maternity ward in Sudan's Blue Nile state. © UNFPA Sudan

Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem closes a celebratory Nairobi Summit, where more than 8,300 delegates from around the world threw their support behind realizing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all. © Nairobi Summit

UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem carries the United Nations flag during the closing ceremony of the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25. © Nairobi Summit

Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem meets with Dechen Wangmo, the Health Minister of Bhutan. © UNFPA Bhutan/Nilanjana Bose

Dr. Natalia Kanem spends time with midwives and UNFPA staff at the D5 reproductive health clinic in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown

Dr. Natalia Kanem meets a new mother and her baby at the D5 reproductive health clinic in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown

Dr. Natalia Kanem meets a midwife serving Rohingya women in the Lambasia women-friendly space in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown