South Sudan gained independence in 2011. With less than half the population able to access health facilities and a shortage of skilled birth attendants, the maternal death rate is high. Active since 2006, UNFPA began full-fledged operations in 2012. Current programmes help build the health system and develop capacities for providing reproductive health care, including through training midwives. Other measures seek to prevent gender-based violence, and develop systems to produce and use demographic data for development.
The carnage Mike Marchar witnessed has stayed with him. But there is one thing that takes his mind off those horrors:…
Every once in a while, Joyce Dabor is jolted from sleep by memories of the day she was separated from her children. It…
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