News

Midwifery hotline offers emergency support in Afghanistan

02 August 2017

Expert midwife Tahira Nazari provides support to health workers at the Midwifery Helpline in Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil

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In Bangladesh’s tea gardens, saving mothers and newborns

11 July 2017

Anjana rests with her newborn baby in Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. Both mother and baby survived an obstructed labour, thanks to the intervention of a midwife. © CIPRB/Animesh Biswas

News

Cursed no more – women in western Ethiopia reject childbirth alone in the bush

28 July 2017

Women participate in a community discussion about ending practices that are harmful to women and girls. In this session, they are talking about child marriage. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Meron Negash

News

Contraceptives reach rural women through pioneering system

31 July 2017

Midwife Nan Win Phyu at the Nam Khoke Rural Health Centre uses a family planning wheel to explain contraceptive options. © UNFPA Myanmar/Si Thu Soe Moe

News

“I thought I might die”: Pregnant women struggle to access care in embattled Syria

26 July 2017

Ruqayya and her newborn recover at the Pan-Armenian Charity clinic, outside the Al-Areesheh displacement camp in north-eastern Syria. © UNFPA Syria

Resources

UNFPA Humanitarian Response in Yemen - 2017

Resource date: 01 October 2017

Author: UNFPA Yemen

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News

Yemen’s deadly cholera outbreak puts pregnant women in danger

21 July 2017

Dr. Farea at 22 May Hospital, in Sana’a, checks in on Ibtisam, a pregnant woman with cholera. © UNFPA Yemen

News

After devastating birth injuries, 33 women’s lives transformed

14 July 2017

A young woman at a fistula-repair campaign in Batouri, Cameroon. Obstetric fistula is a life-altering childbirth injury that afflicts the world's most marginalized women. But it can be repaired – and prevented. © UNFPA Cameroon/Olive Bonga

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Leaders around the world commit support for voluntary family planning

14 July 2017

Kate and Samuel Opio with their twins at Inomo Health Centre III, in Uganda's Apac District. They now plan to use a modern contraceptive method. © UNFPA/Prossy Jonker Nakanjako

Publications

H6 Partnership Annual Report 2016

Harnessing the collective strengths of the UN system to improve the health of women, children and adolescents everywhere

Number of pages: 125

Publication date: 15 June 2017

Publisher: UNFPA on behalf of H6

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