Resources

Strengthening Reproductive Health Care in Ibb, Yemen

Resource date: Aug 2016

Author: UNFPA Yemen

News

No place too far: Midwives deployed to far-flung villages in Myanmar

Midwife Daw Aye Myint visits the home of a new mother for a postpartum check-up in the remote region of Magway. © UNFPA Myanmar

29 July 2016

News

Stay and deliver: Saving lives under gunfire in Juba

A mother and baby in Bentiu, South Sudan, in 2015. When violence erupted days before the fifth anniversary of South Sudan's independence, heroic midwives stood their ground to save lives. © UNFPA/Amadou Baraze Elh Nakaka

26 July 2016

Family planning in remote Lao People's Democratic Republic

Published on: 24/05/2016

With support from UNFPA, Agnod, has helped more than 300 families receive family planning services in remote Laos.

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Maternal death rate plunges in Lao People's Democratic Republic

Agnod counsels villagers on family planning. Efforts like Agnod's have helped the country lower its maternal death rate significantly. © UNFPA/Matthew Taylor

13 July 2016

News

Getting help to nomad moms on the move in West Darfur

Zahra Zakaria was in labour for three days in a tent in West Darfur. A Caesarean section saved her and her son. © UNFPA

12 July 2016

News

Caring for the crisis-affected mothers of Quneitra, Syria

Women recover in the UNFPA-supported hospital in Quneitra. Over 600 babies were born there in the first quarter of 2016. © UNFPA/a UNFPA partner organization

13 June 2016

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Midwives deployed in Uganda to prevent ‘social calamity’

Carolyn Akello became a midwife after attending the funeral of a woman who died in childbirth. Midwives like Ms. Akello are working to end preventable maternal deaths in Uganda. © UNFPA

10 June 2016

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After childbirth trauma, Afghan women emerge from life in shadows

Noorjahan laughs as she recovers from fistula surgery in Malalai Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Now, she says, "I can live." © Andrea Bruce/ NOOR

07 June 2016

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With a midwife’s help, quadruplets are safely delivered in remote Afghanistan

An expectant mother receives a check up at the Qaramat Family Health House in Afghanistan's central highlands. © UNFPA Afghanistan

16 May 2016

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