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“I felt I was in hell” – Escalating hostilities threaten thousands of pregnant women in Yemen’s Hodeidah

08 August 2018
A post-partum mother with her newborn at the Al Thawra Hospital maternity ward. © UNFPA Yemen
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In Türkiye, refugee child marriages drive adolescent pregnancies underground

26 July 2018
Pregnant child brides need extra attention, says Huda, a UNFPA midwife in the Hayati Harrani women's and girl's safe space. “But our hands are tied because so few come for care.” © UNFPA Türkiye/Usenabasi Esiet
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Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate

10 July 2018
Family health houses are helping midwives provide reproductive health care in far-flung parts of Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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After ‘Volcano of Fire’ eruption, women and girls face heightened risks

05 July 2018
Women and girls require security, health care and other services in the aftermath of the disaster. © UNFPA Guatemala/Carlos Sebastián
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Health facilities, safe spaces reinforced as monsoon rains threaten Rohingya refugees

02 July 2018
As the monsoon season hits Cox's Bazar, refugees at Kutapalong refugee camp and elsewhere fear they are vulnerable to landslides. © UNHCR/Adam Dean
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Sexual and reproductive health needs immense among Rohingya refugees

29 June 2018
Health workers rush to assist Salima Khatum at the Nayapara refugee camp maternity centre. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Allison Joyce
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Midwife escapes death after being denied maternal health care

25 June 2018
Najat suffered a traumatic birth injury, and nearly died, after her in-laws refused to take her to a hospital during labour. © National Midwives Association/UNFPA
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Fistula camp helps women and girls in Sierra Leone regain their dignity

12 June 2018
Women and girls celebrating after their successful fistula repair surgeries at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Freetown © UNFPA Sierra Leone 2018/Angelique Reid
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Reaching “forgotten” Rohingya in Myanmar cut off from basic maternal care

11 June 2018
Phu Tu Nee, 19, gave birth with a UNFPA clean delivery kit as the first tropical storm of the monsoon season descended on the camps and villages of “forgotten” Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. © UNFPA Myanmar/Yenny Gamming
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In war-torn Yemen, a devastating childbirth injury, then a glimpse of hope

21 May 2018
A medical team at Al Thawara Hospital successfully treated Shaima's obstetric fistula. © UNFPA Yemen
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