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Women’s health needs critical as battle for Mosul intensifies

03 November 2016

A displaced family walks under a sky blackened by burning oil wells in Qayyarah, south of Mosul. Nineteen oil wells were set ablaze as ISIL retreated from the area. © OCHA/ Themba Linden

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Health facilities devastated in Hurricane Matthew: “I couldn’t have left the women there to die”

25 October 2016

Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, unleashing the greatest devastation the country has seen since the 2010 earthquake. © UNFPA/Eddie Wright

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Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

12 October 2016

Joint UN estimates indicate the Maldives has seen a 90 per cent decline in maternal mortality since 1990. © UNFPA/Shahina Ali

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After harrowing escape, South Sudan woman welcomes healthy twins

04 October 2016

Nyador Dagey with her newborn twins in a UNFPA-supported clinic in Bentiu. © UNFPA South Sudan/Michael Gatluak Tuok

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Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

21 September 2016

Residents flee brutal violence in the Rutshuru territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2012. Women give birth, even in wartime and disasters. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

Video

Saving lives through mentoring

September 15, 2016

In Burkina Faso, a mentoring programme for midwives is saving the lives of women and newborns.

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As displacements soar, Juba’s burdened clinics improvise to keep childbirth safe

16 September 2016

A midwife delivers a baby at a health facility in Juba. At UNFPA-supported health facilities in Juba's protection camps, many of the midwives are themselves displaced people. © UNFPA South Sudan/Arlene Calaguian Alano

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Giving birth amid Boko Haram insurgency; UNFPA reaching millions with care

29 August 2016

A nurse and a survivor of the Boko Haram insurgency at an antenatal check-up. UNFPA has provided the clinic, at the GGSS displacement camp, with reproductive health kits, clean delivery kits and dignity kits. © UNFPA Nigeria

Resources

1000s of lives saved during Ebola outbreak

Resource date: 31 May 2016

Author: UNFPA Western and Central Africa Regional Office

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Escape from Fallujah: Pregnant residents describe life on the run from ISIL

19 August 2016

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