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Pandemic heightens vulnerabilities of persons with disabilities who require reproductive health care
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Pandemic heightens vulnerabilities of persons with disabilities who require reproductive health care
UNITED NATIONS, New York/FRANCISTOWN, Botswana, RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Even under normal circumstances, persons with disabilities face discrimination, high rates of gender-based violence, and exclusion from services and decision-making. Today, as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, the vulnerabilities and barriers faced…
COVID-19 strikes Yemen as humanitarian funding dries up
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COVID-19 strikes Yemen as humanitarian funding dries up
SANA’A, Yemen – On 10 April, Yemen announced its first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19. Since then, 34 more cases and 7 deaths have been reported. Health workers, already stretched to the limit by five years of grinding conflict, are sounding the alarm that…
Motherhood during Coronavirus
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Motherhood during Coronavirus
Update July 6, 2020: though UNFPA does not have any programming in the United States, American mothers still deserve care. New reporting from Propublica shows that a lack of U.S. research on the effects of coronavirus for pregnant women has…
Ethiopia’s midwives grapple with the COVID-19 while ensuring safe delivery
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Ethiopia’s midwives grapple with the COVID-19 while ensuring safe delivery
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Today Ethiopia has more than 70 confirmed cases of COVID-19, a fact that has placed the country’s midwives on high alert. “Midwives cannot maintain physical distance with a labouring mother like in other wards, making them too prone…

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