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Midwives help lower Afghanistan's towering maternal death rate

07 January 2015
Fahima Nazary, head of midwifery at the CURE Hospital in Kabul, looks over a mother and newborn. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Rada Akbar
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The H4+ partnership

Joint support to improve women’s and children’s health

Number of pages: 9

Publication date: 01 September 2014

Author: UNFPA, on behalf of H4+

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This overview report summarizes the H4+ partnership, objectives and country achievements made to date.

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Scaling Up the Humanitarian Response for Syrian Refugees

24 June 2012
Syrian refugees receiving supplies in Northern Lebanon. Photo: UNHCR/F. Juez
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UNFPA Marks 1,000-Day Milestone to the MDG 2015 Target Date

08 April 2013
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UNFPA Launches Advocacy Platform for Post-2015 Development Framework

24 October 2013
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‘School for Husbands’ Encourages Nigerien Men to Improve the Health of Their Families

20 April 2011
Pupils of School for Husbands' become guides and role models within their own family and among others in the community.
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Philippines: Maternal Mortality Rates Not Making Sufficient Progress to Meet MDGs

07 April 2009
Filipino women in undeveloped rural areas of the Philippines are far more likely to die from childbearing than their urban counterparts.
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Teenage Pregnancy is Way of Life in Remote Laotian Villages

30 October 2013
<p>At 16, Tod is expecting her second child.&nbsp;With limited options for schooling, adolscents in some remote villages in southern Laos routinely marry and start the hard work of raising families by age 14 or 15. <i>Photo&copy;UNFPA AsiaPacific</i> </p>
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Preventing Teenage Pregnancy in Ecuador

26 August 2010
Maria Victoria Urquizo(15) was raped by a co-worker when she was 14 years old. Now she lives with her baby girl at her brother's house. Photo: Trygve Olfarnes/UNFPA.
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Liberia's Ebola outbreak leaves pregnant women stranded

26 August 2014
Two midwives in protective gear supplied by UNFPA hand over a newborn to her mother at the Star of the Sea Clinic in West Point, Monrovia. Photo credit: UNFPA Liberia
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