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A new mobile app brings the digital revolution to adolescent maternal care in Uganda

08 April 2016
Team GetIN members (left to right) Hope Kirabo, Busingye Joshua, Gift Mbabazi and Donald Rukanga during a field visit to Kanungu district. © UNFPA Uganda
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How a new blood bank is saving the lives of pregnant women in Darfur

05 April 2016
A patient with emergency obstetric complications receives a life-saving blood transfusion at El Fasher Maternity Hospital. © UNFPA Sudan
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Five of the greatest sexual health advances since the birth of the UN

23 October 2015
Over the last 70 years, there has been remarkable progress in sexual and reproductive health. Women learn about family planning at a clinic in Tunisia in 1987. © UN Photo/John Isaac
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Acceptance of family planning grows in Afghanistan, but myths linger

23 November 2015
Nargis, a midwife, provides family planning counselling in Herat, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil
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Majority of maternal deaths take place in crises and fragile conditions

13 November 2015
Rose Yangu, a refugee from South Sudan, after safely giving birth in the Kiryandongo refugee settlement in Uganda. UNFPA supports safe deliveries in emergency situations. © UNFPA/Eveyln Kiapi
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