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Free maternal services are a lifeline to expectant mothers in Yemen

On her way to the health centre to give birth, Hailah almost fell off the back of a borrowed motorbike – twice. A lack of oil has driven up high transportation costs, and the money her husband, Hamid, made in Saudi…

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A 12-hour walk at 7 months pregnant: Escape from the horrors of war in Ukraine

Amid the violence, fear and deepening uncertainty that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 21-year-old Natasha Kuznetsova fled her home in the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, which has seen destruction on a…

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More than $250 million needed to sustain humanitarian response for women and girls in Afghanistan

“I had a miscarriage and my two-year-old daughter got sick,” Anisa* recalled after her local health facility stopped providing maternal and newborn health services. “We both needed medical care, but we did not know…

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In a deadly typhoon’s wake, a women-led mobile facility meets sexual and reproductive health needs

A new mobile sexual and reproductive health clinic has been deployed to the devastated Philippines province of Southern Leyte following December’s Typhoon Rai/Odette, the third strongest storm on record to hit the…

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Attending to the sexual and reproductive health needs of refugees from Ukraine

“If I wasn't so scared there, I wouldn’t think of leaving my country,” said Maria Voinska, who fled Odessa when Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February. As of 11 March, 310,000 people, including some 278,000…

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In her words: “Above my house, I saw a burning missile.” An expectant mother seeks safety in the Republic of Moldova

Daria Smirnova, 33, left Odessa, Ukraine with her mother and son and arrived in Chișinău, the capital of the Republic of Moldova, approximately 180 kilometres away. Nine months pregnant with another boy, she is due to…

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In her words: Air raid sirens, a baby’s first cry. Giving birth during war in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine – I had a complicated pregnancy so I went to the maternity hospital early so that the child and I would be under doctor supervision. When I woke up on 24 February, my phone’s screen was full of messages…

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Maternal and reproductive health-care crisis in Ethiopia

KONSO, Ethiopia - “I was discharged from the health facility after the stillbirth of my baby without any medication or treatment. I have been bleeding ever since,” said Asnaketch, sitting in her tent at Haylota IDP (…

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Pregnant women’s needs grow as Tropical Storm Ana wreaks havoc in southern Malawi

“The prospect of another cyclone was scary,” said Monica, who lives in Mbenje in Malawi’s Nsanje District. “We lived through the same experience with Cyclone Idai and then Cyclone Kenneth. We had to rebuild from scratch…

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