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Wanted and Needed: Midwives
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Wanted and Needed: Midwives
You can help save 4.3 million lives each year. In war-ravaged Yemen, Rahma, a UNFPA midwife, opened a clinic in her home to serve pregnant women who had no other access to care. In August, a massive, 7.2 magnitude earthquake…
Midwives continue to deliver amid uncertainty in Afghanistan
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Midwives continue to deliver amid uncertainty in Afghanistan
NEW YORK, United Nations/Afghanistan – Even before the current humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the maternal health situation. Pregnant women faced one of the highest maternal death rates in the world. Today, “humanitarian catastrophe looms”, said UNFPA’s Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at a high-level meeting at United…
Reproductive health supplies airlifted into quake-shattered Haiti
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Reproductive health supplies airlifted into quake-shattered Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE/NEW YORK – UNFPA and partner agencies have airlifted more than 125 tons of life-saving supplies to earthquake-shattered parts of Haiti. The 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Haiti on August 14 killed more than 2,200 people. It injured more than 12,260 people and left…
At high-level UN meeting, Afghan women call for support
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At high-level UN meeting, Afghan women call for support
UNITED NATIONS, New York – “My country is in a humanitarian crisis,” said Yalda Royan, an Afghan women’s rights advocate. She spoke ahead of a high-level meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, held at the United Nations on Monday. “Eighteen million Afghans…

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