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In Myanmar, family planning empowers women to take charge of their health, futures

26 October 2016
Family planning is helping women in Myanmar protect their health and families. © UNFPA Myanmar
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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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For busy garment workers in Lesotho, health care comes on wheels

18 October 2016
’Mantina Mphohle receiving health services inside a new mobile clinic, near the factory where she works. © UNFPA Lesotho
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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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Fifty years after a terrible childbirth injury, Kenyan woman gets a new lease on life

10 October 2016
Jumwa Kabibu Kai, 77, with Kilifi County Governor Amason Kingi, at an event raising awareness about fistula. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo
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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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Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

29 September 2016
This woman's second childbirth experience was totally different from her first, she says, because she was able to deliver in the traditional vertical position. © Panorama/Carlos Gomez
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