News

Thoraya Obaid and the African Population and Health Research Centre honoured with UN Population Award

26 June 2015
Children play football at a low-cost informal school in Nairobi. Research by APHRC has helped the Government of Kenya develop policies on school access. © African Population and Health Research Centre
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News

Shortage in funding threatens care for pregnant Syrian refugees

25 June 2015
Too many refugees lack access to adequate health care. Isra'a lost her newborn son when she could not pay for neonatal care. © UNFPA/David Brunetti
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News

The wait is over for safe births in rural Cambodia

22 June 2015
Senior midwife Yan Yan Phearen gives an antenatal exam to Net Pheak at the Waiting House for Pregnant Women with Complications, in Kratie, Cambodia. © Nicolas Axelrod/Ruom for UNFPA
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News

In remote Mongolia, telemedicine connects pregnant women to faraway care

19 June 2015
Altanchimeg, a midwife, delivers a baby in Ulaanbataar, the capital. She provides expert advice to provincial hospitals around Mongolia through the Telemedicine Network. © UNFPA Mongolia/Tim Jenkins
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News

Male midwife champions safe motherhood for South Sudan refugees

17 June 2015
Midwife Chris Kwikiriza gives a dignity kit, containing hygiene supplies, to a mother and her newborn at Biira Health Centre, near the Boroli refugee settlement. Despite widespread reluctance to use health facilities and male midwives, Mr. Kwikirize has become one of the most trusted midwives in the area. © UNFPA/Evelyn Kiapi
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News

Relief workers in Nepal race to beat monsoon rains

15 June 2015
Nangsal Tamang, Kalpana Tamang, and Dawa Deki Tamang, all from Hakku Village, receive care at a mobile reproductive health camp in Rasuwa District. © UNFPA Nepal
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Statement

UNFPA Statement on the Population Control Healthcare Law in Myanmar

09 June 2015
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News

Mobile camps bring life-saving care to Nepal's quake-affected

02 June 2015
Women at a mobile reproductive health camp in Dhunkharka Village Development Committee, Kavre District. © UNFPA Nepal
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News

School campaign aims to help Côte d’Ivoire reap demographic dividend

29 May 2015
Students in Daoukro, Côte d’Ivoire. Young people are poised to transform the country's future. But to do so, they must be empowered, educated and employed. © UNFPA Cote d'Ivoire
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Resources

UNFPA's Nepal earthquake response

Resource date: 30 September 2015

Author: UNFPA

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