Syrian crisis takes heaviest toll on region’s women and girls

13 August 2014

A Syrian refugee visits a reproductive health centre at Domiz Camp in Dohuk, Iraq. Photo credit: UNFPA/Aral Kakl

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In Thailand's refugee camps, shifting attitudes about sexual and reproductive health

16 September 2014

Saba has her blood pressure checked during a consultation with a refugee nurse assistant at a sexual and reproductive health clinic in the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand. Photo credit: UNFPA Thailand

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Community health workers respond to Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

11 August 2014

UNFPA Regional Family Planning Coordinator Brima Kamara conducts a training for community contact tracers. Photo credit: Crispin Cole

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UNFPA deploys support for women, girls amid mass flight from Iraq’s Sinjar

08 August 2014

UNFPA distributes dignity kits to displaced familieis in Sharia, Iraq. Photo credit: UNFPA Iraq

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UNFPA responds to needs of 36,000 pregnant women displaced in Pakistan

28 July 2014

Thousands of displaced families have been living for years in the Jalozai camp in Pakistan's Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At the end of June, military operations in  North Waziristan sent thousands more families into displacement; most of them fled to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu District. Photo credit: OCHA

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In South Sudan, opposition to family planning exacerbates reproductive health needs

30 July 2014

A pregnant women receives antenatal care at a UNFPA clinic in a displacement camp in Juba, South Sudan. The country has too few health professionals to meet women's reproductive health needs.Photo credit: Tim McKulka/UNFPA

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Violence survivors seek support amid Syrian conflict

18 July 2014

Syrian women seeking reproductive health services at the Al-Halbouni clinic in Damascus, Syria. Photo credit: UNFPA Syria

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In South Sudan camp, midwifery training offers a crucial a lifeline

07 July 2014

Marsa Nyaluak and midwife trainee Ana Chuoch David in a displacement camp in Juba, South Sudan. Ms. David was able to save both Ms. Nyaluak and her daughter, Happy, when complications arose during childbirth. Photo credit: UNFPA/Jaime Jacques

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Women and girls at risk as conflict escalates in Iraq

30 June 2014

Siblings take shelter in a school in Duhok Governorate, Iraq, after fleeing recent fighting. Photo credit: UNHCR/S. Baldwin

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Supporting survivors of gender-based violence in war-ravaged Syria

26 June 2014

Syrian women participate in a session on gender-based violence and reproductive health issues at the Al-Shagour centre in Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic. Photo credit: UNFPA Syria / Hamada Smesem

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