The Maternal and Newborn Health Fund: A catalyst for change
The Maternal and Newborn Health Fund (MNH Fund) is UNFPA’s flagship programme for improving maternal and newborn health and well-being.
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A boat clinic delivers crucial health care for women in remote villages in Benin
June 10, 2024Women in the remote villages of Sô-Ava, Benin have limited access to reproductive health care and maternity wards.
A boat clinic, supported by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—helps deliver the services they need.
Watch UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem’s visit to the clinic to see how UNFPA is working to ensure rights and choices for all women and girls, no matter where they live.
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Heroic midwives save lives in northwest Syria
May 22, 2024After 13 years of conflict, midwives in northwest Syria are saving lives.
See how crucial midwives are to ensuring pregnant women in need can give birth safely and find out more about how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting women and girls in Syria. Learn more.
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Explainer: What is the ICPD and why does it matter?
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Babies are dying in Gaza hospital due to lack of ventilators
April 1, 2024“Most babies will die.”
There aren’t enough ventilators at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah, Gaza to support the babies being born there.
Let Dr. Ahmed Al-Shaer, Deputy Head of the Incubator Care Unit at the hospital, describe the desperate situation and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding to mothers and babies in need.
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Midwives make motherhood safer
May 5, 2024Join UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, to celebrate the heroes who protect the health and rights of mothers and babies around the world. Learn more.
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Women and girls in Gaza use torn pieces of cloth in place of sanitary pads
March 14, 2024Lack of access to menstrual hygiene products in Gaza is forcing many women and girls, like Bakiza (47) and her daughter, to take desperate measures.
See the impact of the support being delivered by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
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Pregnant women in Gaza forced to give birth on hospital floors
March 22, 2024Women in Gaza have to give birth on the floor at the overcrowded Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah as doctors run out of basic medical supplies.
Let UNFPA Palestine Representative Dominic Allen describe the heroic efforts of desperate medical staff helping women give birth safely and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting them.
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“Absolute catastrophe” at only functioning maternity hospital in Gaza city
March 11, 2024Hospitals in the north of Gaza are barely functioning, with medical supplies and fuel running out.
Women are forced to undergo C- sections with only partial anaesthesia.
UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—just delivered critical medical supplies to Al Sahaba Hospital, the only functioning maternity hospital in Gaza City.
Hear from UNFPA Representative Dominic Allen about the desperate need he witnessed during a high-risk mission and stay up to date on our ongoing humanitarian response here.
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Newborns struggle to survive at maternity hospital in Rafah (Gaza)
February 21, 2024Incubators at Al-Helal Al-Emirati Hospital in Gaza are full of babies with dead or missing parents. Hear from two doctors at the hospital about this tragic situation and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action.
Learn more about the crisis in Gaza here.