Two months after the devastating earthquakes hit Herat, women and girls are still in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
Let UNFPA Asia & the Pacific Regional Director Pio Smith show you how we are providing life-saving support to the thousands of people affected in Afghanistan.
“They bombed the house next to us. I was under the rubble and couldn’t move,” says Islam, who was pregnant and 10 days from her due date when her home in Gaza was destroyed by relentless bombardment.
Listen to her tell her heartbreaking story and see how UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is responding to this humanitarian crisis.
Hear from three pregnant women trapped in #Gaza about the dire conditions they are facing.
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is supporting reproductive health and counselling services and stands ready to deliver vital aid once access to Gaza is restored.
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Thousands of people are taking shelter in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza while staff try to help pregnant women and premature babies.
Let filmmaker Bisan Ouda show you inside the hospital and hear from health workers in dire need of life-saving medicines and supplies.
UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem's message on the crisis in Gaza. UNFPA joins the call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, so that aid can reach those who have been affected by the complete siege of Gaza this October. Among the 2.2 million affected population in Gaza, 1 in 4 are women and girls of reproductive age, around 572,000, and they need urgent access to reproductive health supplies and services.
In Gaza, 50,000 women are currently pregnant. Almost 160 women will give birth every day amid the violence. Most are unable to access health services.
With bombs raining down on hospitals and United Nations shelters, the people of #Gaza have nowhere safe to go.
UNFPA, the UnitedNations sexual and reproductive health agency, calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
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An estimated 3,000 women of reproductive age are affected by Saturday’s earthquake in Afghanistan.
Jaime Nadal, UNFPA Afghanistan representative, describes from Herat how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is providing urgent maternal and reproductive health care.
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Why do UNFPA and the humanitarian workers we support continue to help the seemingly endless number of women and girls in need? Because we care, and we know you do too.
Learn more about our mission to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.