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Tens of thousands of girls reached through Mozambique empowerment programme

09 August 2017
Edma teaches girls the skills and knowledge they need to protect themselves, stay in school and demand their rights. © UNFPA/Helene Christensen
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Midwifery hotline offers emergency support in Afghanistan

02 August 2017
Expert midwife Tahira Nazari provides support to health workers at the Midwifery Helpline in Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil
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In Bangladesh’s tea gardens, saving mothers and newborns

11 July 2017
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
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Cursed no more – women in western Ethiopia reject childbirth alone in the bush

28 July 2017
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
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Contraceptives reach rural women through pioneering system

31 July 2017
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
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“I thought I might die”: Pregnant women struggle to access care in embattled Syria

26 July 2017
Ruqayya and her newborn recover at the Pan-Armenian Charity clinic, outside the Al-Areesheh displacement camp in north-eastern Syria. © UNFPA Syria
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To secure a better future, teens in Sierra Leone look to family planning

10 July 2017
Aminata Kabba became pregnant at 15. She says she wishes she had known about family planning. © MSSL
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Yemen’s deadly cholera outbreak puts pregnant women in danger

21 July 2017
Dr. Farea at 22 May Hospital, in Sana’a, checks in on Ibtisam, a pregnant woman with cholera. © UNFPA Yemen
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After devastating birth injuries, 33 women’s lives transformed

14 July 2017
A young woman at a fistula-repair campaign in Batouri, Cameroon. Obstetric fistula is a life-altering childbirth injury that afflicts the world's most marginalized women. But it can be repaired – and prevented. © UNFPA Cameroon/Olive Bonga
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Leaders around the world commit support for voluntary family planning

14 July 2017
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
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