Childbirth shouldn’t be a death sentence.

Yet for too many mothers and their newborns caught in crises it is.

For just $5, a UNFPA Emergency Birth Kit can be the difference between life and death.

Please, help us save lives 🧡 Donate now.

Imagine going into labour while you’re starving and your local hospital is destroyed.

To help women in Gaza facing this horrific situation, a UNFPA mobile clinic is providing life-saving care.

See what it means to mothers in need.

As pregnant women are displaced and traumatized by the ongoing war in Sudan, see how Hager holds her community together from her small home clinic.

Funding cuts for maternal healthcare in Yemen are cutting women’s:

🟠 survival
🟠 dignity
🟠 rights

They need funding to be restored.

The world must invest in humanity.

Many mothers in Somalia are hearing only a heartbreaking silence when they give birth.

More funding is urgently needed to stop their newborns dying due to preventable causes.

Give to help UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—deliver life-saving care: https://unf.pa/dso

Obstetric fistula is preventable and treatable. Yet thousands of women and girls suffer from the painful realities of living with it. Let UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—explain the traumatic consequences of this serious childbirth injury and why we need to end fistula.

“In every crisis the country faces, it is the midwives who carry the burden.”

With over 3 million people in Somalia displaced, many pregnant women have limited or no access to healthcare.

See how midwives like Nadiifo step up to provide life-saving support.
 

Hundreds of Afghan women are crossing the border with Pakistan daily, seeking safety after leaving everything behind.

Many are pregnant and terrified.

Hear how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting them from our Deputy Executive Director (Management) Andrew Saberton.

Giving birth shouldn't be a fight for survival.

In Gaza, Nisma had to flee her home pregnant and now struggles to feed her newborn.

Hear her story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting mothers during humanitarian crises.

Florence is a midwife supported by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—in Chad.

Over 13,000 people, including many pregnant women, have been displaced by severe flooding across the country. 

Now more than ever, her life-saving work is necessary.

See how Florence is making motherhood safer for pregnant women affected by this humanitarian crisis.