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Midwife Finds her Work with Refugees Challenging and Rewarding

ZA’ATRI CAMP, Jordan –- Holding a newborn in her hands is like “heaven” says a young midwife Ghadeer Taher Horani, who struggled to find the exact words to describe the feeling of delivering babies.

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Symposium Identifies Ways to Strengthen Quality Midwifery Care

KUALA LUMPUR—Two thirds of maternal and newborn deaths – 3.6 million between now and 2015 – could be averted if enough skilled midwives were providing care during childbirth.

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Voices of Midwives

Midwives from around the world came to Kuala Lumpur in May 2013 for the Second Global Midwifery Symposium. No one knows more about the challenge, and joys, of saving mothers’ lives than these healthcare workers on the…

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Technology is Transforming the Future of Development

Across the remote, rural areas of the developing world, childbearing is fraught with danger. And when life-threatening complications arise, as they do — often unpredictably — women are simply too far to reach lifesaving…

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Overcoming Fistula in Madagascar

MAHAJANGA, Madagascar — Every day, 10 women die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth in Madagascar. Many more survive, but  suffer from untreated complications of pregnancy, including the most…

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Protecting the Rights, Unleashing the Potential of Indigenous Girls in Rural Guatemala

CHITIXL, Guatemala --- "In my village girls do not have access to information nor education," said Sonia Delfina Cho Tún from the Chitixl community in the lush northern highlands of the country. "There…

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In Fiji, UNFPA Chief Stresses Women's Empowerment, Girls Education

SUVA, Fiji — If alarming rates of violence against women are to be effectively addressed, the status of women needs to be elevated.

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Towards Increased Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Syria

NIZIP, Türkiye— More has to be done to ensure the health and wellbeing of women and children affected by the Syrian conflict, said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UNFPA, on a recent visit to Türkiye…

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Syrian Women Giving Birth in Exile

ZA'ATARI, Jordan — In a tent hospital bed, a Syrian woman who was four months pregnant when she fled her country's civil war cradles one of the newest residents of this dust-swept refugee camp: Her newborn son…

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