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.
Every mother deserves a safe birth.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t the case for Adlah, who had to deliver her baby under bombardment and displacement in Gaza.
Hear her story and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting mothers during humanitarian crises.
Amid chaos and suffering, the Idlib Maternity Hospital in North-West Syria has become a beacon of hope and safety for the community.
Hear from Laila Baker, our Regional Director for Arab States, after her recent visit to the hospital and see how the UNFPA is making motherhood safer in Syria.
Over 84,000 pregnant women in Haiti, like Mariline, lack secure access to health services due to ongoing gang violence.
See how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action to make motherhood safer and stay up to date on our ongoing humanitarian response.
Rafah is under attack and the already desperate condition for thousands of pregnant women is getting worse every day.
See how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action to make motherhood safer at the International Medical Corps (IMC) field hospital in Gaza as the military assault on Rafah leads to more trauma and death. Learn more.
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Pregnancy and motherhood in Gaza are now fraught with danger as hunger and the diseases that stalk it thrive.
Al-Shifa hospital—where mothers and babies once received life-saving care—is in ruins.
The only way back from this nightmare is for a ceasefire NOW.
Let UNFPA Palestine representative Dominic Allen show you the destruction and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is responding.
“It is full of the smell of death."
The scenes of destruction in Gaza are unimaginable. Maternity wards emptied of patients and destroyed as life-saving maternal health supplies burn.
Pregnant women have nowhere to go to give birth safely.
See the levels of destruction and hear about the impact on pregnant women from Dominic Allen, Representative for UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—in Palestine on his recent visit to Khan Younis.