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Incorporating culture into care: One Afrodescendent midwife’s journey towards ending maternal deaths in Costa Rica

Midwife Siannie Palmer supports women of African and indigenous descent in Sixaola, Puerto Viejo. © UNFPA Costa Rica / Juan Manuel Fernández
  • 29 August 2024
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“It’s a burning issue”: How one midwife is harnessing new technology to support mothers and newborns in India

Lovepreet Saini sits at her desk at the National Midwife Training Institute in Punjab, India. © Maternity Foundation
  • 25 August 2024
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“Bringing smiles to mothers and babies”: Midwives promote safe births at Nimbo health centre in Côte D’Ivoire

Rosine Gnohou holds her second daughter. © UNFPA/Guillaume Baleir
  • 30 July 2024
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How a teenage mother in Cameroon triumphed over child marriage and sexual violence amid conflict  

UNFPA has deployed 34 midwives and a team of social workers offering life-saving health care and protection services to vulnerable women and girls in remote and hard-to-reach areas of the Far North Region in Cameroon. © UNFPA Cameroon/Samuel Sawalda
  • 07 June 2024
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This Mother’s Day, here are 5 reasons to celebrate motherhood – by choice

Henriette Akayezu, 19, with her son in Rwanda. This month, as more than 100 countries mark Mother’s Day, we call attention to the power and importance of exercising choice in the act of becoming mothers – a power afforded to too few. © UNFPA/Jadwiga Figula
  • 10 May 2024
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Heroic midwives save lives in northwest Syria

Published on: 22/05/2024

After 13 years of conflict, midwives in northwest Syria are saving lives.

See how crucial midwives are to ensuring pregnant women in need can give birth safely and find out more about how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting women and girls in Syria. Learn more

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Hero’s journey: How UNFPA helps mothers in Madagascar to access emergency obstetric care

Samueline Razafindravao is one of millions of women who intended to give birth at home in Madagascar in recent years. “I was worried about the expense of going to hospital,” she said. © UN News/Daniel Dickinson
  • 23 April 2024
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Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Midwife 2024

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Statement from UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the potential invasion in Rafah

05 May 2024

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