When their home began to flood shortly before midnight on 15 March, heavily pregnant Tina Patissone, 30, grabbed her 4 children and braved strong winds to reach Secondary School, where other people had gathered.

UNFPA is providing humanitarian assistance to Mozambique in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai to protect the health and well-being of women, through services for sexual and reproductive health and prevention of and response to gender-based violence.

Displaced women, among them pregnant women, have lost critical health supplies including ante-natal care records, iron supplements and ARVs,which have been washed away with their belongings in flooding across two provinces.