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![Kemal Hassan, a midwife mentor in Ethiopia, examines a patient while using an app.](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/kemal_hassan_a_midwife_mentor_in_ethiopia_examines_a_patient_while_using_an_app_developed_as_part_of_a_programme_to_boost_maternal_health._copy.jpg?itok=Nl7VW8Yj)
How midwife mentors make it safer for women to give birth in Ethiopia's fragile areas
Imagine being a midwife in a remote, fragile context, like the Afar region in Ethiopia. This hot low-land and desert-like area has been affected by... Read more
![Humanitarian midwife Esther Okunia, trained by UNFPA, with displaced women attending prenatal consultations at the mobile clinic](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/drc_midwife.jpg?itok=2lR0FTMs)
Midwives: Heroes on the front lines of the global climate crisis
Right now, around the world, millions of lives are in the hands of midwives. Whether they are wading through flood waters to reach pregnant women or... Read more
![Edinah smiles as she holds a newborn baby. Inside of a hospital Edinah, a midwife, holds a baby.](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/20230331_uga_0182web.jpg?itok=GsTuHSTF)
Celebrating midwives: Edinah delivers babies, one safe birth at a time
Grimacing and sweating, twenty-three-year-old Samiya, a refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is expecting her first child and is... Read more
![Mme Ombeni, giving birth in the mobile clinic in the internally displaced persons camp of Bulengo, North Kivu DRC. ©UNFPA/Junior](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/press_release__1.jpg?itok=UIlYKf7X)
Urgent call for country leadership and global solidarity to End Maternal and Newborn Deaths by 2030
UNFPA will join global leaders to call for renewed commitment towards progress on eradicating preventable maternal and newborn deaths at an event on... Read more
![Safe Space peer facilitator facilitating a session on self care in ward 31, Buhera district](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/mz_buhera_district_photo_credit_musasa2.jpg?itok=BZmym_Vd)
Prisca’s story: “I thought I had lost it all”
Prisca,* a 22-year-old young woman who lives in Chiredzi Rural, Zambia, has faced a harrowing ordeal. One night, while asleep in a room with two... Read more
![Image of women on a rural clinic](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/banner_madagascarnewsstory_2024.png?itok=7qZlKNjq)
Hero’s journey: How UNFPA helps mothers in Madagascar to access emergency obstetric care
It was time to leave for the hospital. Samueline Razafindravao had intended to give birth at her home in southern Madagascar, but after encountering... Read more
![Dr. Natalia Kanem © Mary Kang for Global Citizen](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/drkanemmary_kang_for_global_citizen.jpg?itok=NIvwxjeO)
Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Health Day
End discrimination to ensure the right to health for all. On World Health Day, we celebrate the successes achieved since the adoption of the 1994... Read more
![Mwaka*, a survivor of gender-based violence, stayed at the Laweni shelter after escaping her husband’s abuse.](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/how_a_unfpa-supported_shelter_empowers_women_and_girls_in_zambia_to_break_free_from_abuse_.jpeg?itok=N9HZuvH5)
“You will thrive”: How a UNFPA-supported shelter empowers women and girls in Zambia to break free from abuse
“We began our life together from scratch. I was full of life, passion and blind love,” says mother-of-three Mwaka*. “Then, later, you find out who... Read more
![In Ethiopia, UNFPA supports gender-based violence survivors in partnership together with the Amhara Women Association.](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/ethiopia_gbv.png?itok=KmprVqab)
Supporting GBV survivors in Amhara to recover and build resilience
Amina is one of the many women who have experienced conflict-related sexual violence during the devastating two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia.... Read more
![A nurse Sitraka examinesat the Mangily Community Health Centre. ©UNFPA / Jadwiga Figula Nurse Sitraka examines a pregnant woman's abdomen and listens to a pregnant woman's abdomen through a pinard stethoscope.](https://countryoffice.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/styles/news_list/public/news/eumaternalhemorrage1smll.jpg?itok=DCHrw0Eg)
Joint UNFPA-Unitaid venture backed by major EU funding aims to eliminate the leading cause of mothers dying in childbirth in Africa
A groundbreaking venture between two global health agencies – backed by EUR 20 million to be awarded by the European Union – and in partnership with... Read more