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14th December 2023
CHIKWAWA, Malawi – In Malawi, Fanny, a 16 year old girl, didn’t know how to react when she learned her initiation ceremony was happening. “No one really tells you the truth about what happens there,” she told UNFPA. “Many things are…
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7th December 2023
Haleema Ibrahim, 36, walked a few minutes back to her home in the village of Shanisha, in Sudan’s Blue Nile State, carrying a basket of freshly-ground grains from UNFPA’s newly-built flour mill. “We used to walk long distances to grind…
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16th November 2023
“The doctors were pessimistic. They were convinced that my child would not survive,” said 28-year-old single mother Marta Asryan. “I was weak, bleeding – but I insisted that my son was going to be born no matter what.” Ms. Asryan…
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16th November 2023
“The working conditions in our hospital are catastrophic. We lack basic life necessities and we’re struggling with a severe shortage of water,” said Yasmine Ahmed, a midwife at Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility. After a month of escalating hostilities, the…
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