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02/02/2024

In the mining town of Tenke, UNFPA offers a safe space to promote empowerment through the socio-economic reintegration of women and girls, including survivors of gender-based violence. Tout Tenke offers free psycho-social support and information on sexual and reproductive health. Watch how the safe space is helping to transform lives.

29/01/2024

Neqsege is a district located in the Tigray region, which extends from the Semen Mountains. The district has rough terrain, which poses a challenge to villagers, especially pregnant women. Due to the difficult terrain, building infrastructure is quite challenging, and the conflict that lasted for two years destroyed most health facilities, making access to reproductive health services difficult. As a result, maternal deaths have sharply increased, particularly in the district of Neqsege, which has the highest mortality rate among pregnant women. To address this issue, the UNFPA has been working to strengthen maternity waiting homes. These residential facilities are located near or within health centres, providing a safe place for high-risk pregnant women to stay until delivery, ensuring they are close to medical facilities when they need them most.

27/10/2023

This video reviews the stages of the menstrual cycle and talks about how it can vary in terms of how long it lasts and how often it occurs, especially when girls first get their periods - which is totally normal. It talks about how the fertile period is not always in the middle of a cycle, and that cycles vary from 21 to 50 days (or even shorter or longer) versus the 28-day cycle that is often talked about. The video points out how fluctuations in the menstrual cycle can make it difficult to predict when you are less likely to get pregnant, increasing the risk of unintended pregnancy. Using male or female condoms is always the best way to prevent unintended pregnancy and STIs, including HIV. The video emphasizes the importance of getting to know your own cycle to know when to expect your period and be ready for it.

Follow along using the transcript on YouTube.

26/10/2023

UNFPA and its partners have set up a mobile clinic in the heart of the Bulengo IDP site, which hosts more than 100,000 internally displaced people in North Kivu in eastern DR Congo. The clinic provides sexual and reproductive health care and medical treatment for victims of gender-based violence in a challenging humanitarian context.

12/10/2023

It’s okay not to be okay, but what’s not okay is not doing anything about it.

This World Mental Health Day, UNFPA Regional Champion Shudufhadzo Musida spoke up for women and girls who don’t feel seen, heard or understood.

Learn more about why mental health isn’t a privilege but a universal human right.

29/09/2023

UNFPA together with partners Musasa and FACT have been working to ensure abused women and girls have access to integrated gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health services in the Mbire and Shamva districts of Zimbabwe. The project, called "Strengthening provision of integrated gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health services in remote and hard to reach districts of Zimbabwe", was implemented with the support of the Government of Japan.

A key component of this project was access to essential gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health services through mobile One-Stop Centres and Safe Spaces.

The Mobile One-Stop Centres provide survivors with services such as counselling, health services, police and legal assistance, all under one roof. Survivors can also access emergency supplies, such as dignity kits, post-rape kits, and family planning supplies.

14/09/2023

The Spotlight Initiative stands with survivors of gender-based violence, providing policy, legal, psychological and hands-on support. Watch what happened when representatives from eight African countries that are currently implementing the Spotlight Initiative met from 22-24 August 2023 to deliberate strategies and best practices to eliminate violence against women and girls.

08/09/2023

Sifa was able to give birth safely, and for free, with the help of midwives in a UNFPA-supported mobile clinic in a camp for internally displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, is supporting the estimated 220,000 pregnant women displaced in the area with life-saving maternal and newborn health care.

22/08/2023

With humanitarian needs at record levels, UNFPA aid workers around the world make heroic efforts to support women, girls and those with disabilities, often amidst chaos and danger. 

Watch UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd’s call for a worldwide end to violence against humanitarian workers and women and girls.

11/08/2023

Learn how training on family planning, provided by Caritas with funding from UNFPA through CERF, the Central Emergency Response Fund, has brought about significant social behaviour change in Fuamba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, contributing to improved living conditions. The number of maternal deaths and malnourished children have significantly decreased in this community.

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