When Mother Died, the Family Fell Apart

Ma Houay Kout village is in a particularly remote area in Attapeu Province in southern Laos. Once every three months, a health team will spend two days in each village and provide a range of services and information.

In Uganda today family planning is at the top of the agenda. At the moment there are 34 million citizens but the country has one of the fastest growing populations anywhere in the world. On average each woman will give birth to six children.

Ahead of the 2010 World Cup in Africa, people from across the continent tell the stories of how football impacts on their lives in a new series of African Football Shorts.

With UNFPA support, WAHA produced “Survivors – wounded during childbirth,” a series of documentaries telling the stories of women with fistula and the doctors who provide treatment in Ethiopia.

The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina may have ended 15 years ago, but for some 20,000 women, the legacy of wartime rape lives on. Women of all ethnic groups are still trying to cope with the psychological effects of violence perpetrated against them.

Typhoon Haiyan destroyed birthing facilities and hospitals, leaving thousands of pregnant women without a place to deliver and threatening  years of progress. UNFPA is working to restore reproductive health services.

Sorie Kondi, blind from birth, has been called Sierra Leone's Stevie Wonder - but that may be premature. Still trying to make it as a world musician, Sorie's worried about the future of his daughter Zainab.

Tens of thousands of Philippine women and girls made homeless by Typhoon Haiyan continue to live in crowded evacuation centres. UNFPA is providing reproductive health care and working to prevent gender-based violence.