Five reasons why: Women and girls must have equal rights in our digital world
UNITED NATIONS, New York–International Women ’s Day is an occasion for people around the world to celebrate the cont (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
One year into the war, displaced Ukrainian women are determined to persevere
Chi șinău, MOLDOVA– Everything changed when Marina fled the war in Ukraine. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - March 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
“Midwives are the bridge”: Educator Duncan Shikuku on helping maternal health providers ease women’s fears and save lives
NAIROBI, Kenya– Midwifery educator Duncan Shikuku will never forget the day in 2011 when a new mother was rushed into the hospital where he worked, carried by her family. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - March 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Violence plagues women and girls amid Yemen ’s relentless conflict
UNITED NATIONS/SANA ’A– Rehman* was married off to an abusive man at age 15. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
A year on from Russia ’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, tackling the onslaught on health and rights for generations of women and girls
UKRAINE– “All of this reminds us that life continues, even during war.” Tetyana Postolovska, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, works in a UNFPA mobile reproductive health clinics in Vinnytsia, a tra (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
A neglected global crisis for women: Nearly 300,000 mothers died in 2020 from preventable causes
UNITED NATIONS, New York– In theory, ending maternal mortality should be achievable. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
After more than a decade of war, earthquakes are a catastrophe on top of a crisis for millions of people in Syria
LATTAKIA, Syria– Nuha gave birth to baby Huda on 5 February in Lattakia, in western Syria. The young mother remembers feeling so much hope, so much promise, for her daughter. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Survivors face new risks in earthquake-ravaged T ürkiye as health and protection services brought to the brink
ADIYAMAN, T ürkiye– “I’ve seen war, but this is even beyond that.” Fatma, 40, is from Idlib in northwest Syria, but lives with her four children in Adıyaman, in southern Türkiye. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
“I lost everything in one minute”: Women and girls in dire need as earthquake emergency engulfs Türkiye and Syria
SYRIA/T ÜRKIYE– “We were too scared. We left our houses immediately and couldn’t take anything for the birth, not a single baby cloth. There was no one to communicate with and no place to stay. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
“Women are not alone”: Painting a colourful call to end gender-based violence in Brazil
BOA VISTA, Roraima– In December 2022, 12 Venezuelan women and girls gathered at Rio Branco Park in Boa Vista, Brazil, and stood before an eight-metre-high white wall. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Rallying men and boys in the fight against female genital mutilation
UNITED NATIONS, New York– “Everything that can harm must be fought.” Babani Sidi Mohamad first heard about female genital mutilation when he was 14 years old. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
No trivia: How a virtual safe space in Ukraine is helping teenagers prioritize their mental health
KYIV, Ukraine– "The chat helps me feel very safe." "It's like talking to a friend." “It’s useful for people like me, who are afraid to talk because they weren’t allowed to show their emotions or feel (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - January 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
In Sudan, a UNFPA hospital helps women give birth safely despite flooding crisis
AL MAFAZA, Sudan– After being carried for three kilometres through the rain and mud, Nasreen Faroug Balla finally reached the hospital. She was eight months pregnant – and going into labour. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - January 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
As drought tightens its grip on Kenya, a motorcycle ambulance is helping women to access critical health care
TURKANA COUNTY, Kenya– “The hardship brought on by the drought has left many women weak and malnourished. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - January 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
What does it mean to live in a world of 8 billion people, and counting?
Perhaps you ’ve heard that we will soon overload the Earth’s carrying capacity – or that, on the contrary, population collapse will crash the global economy. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - January 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
