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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…
UNFPA cares for healthcare workers during coronavirus
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UNFPA cares for healthcare workers during coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyone’s lives, but it has left the elderly, pregnant women, and frontline healthcare workers especially vulnerable.   The ability of health professionals to stay well and care for others during these uncertain times will be the difference between…
Pandemic threatens communities ravaged by war and crisis, global support needed
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Pandemic threatens communities ravaged by war and crisis, global support needed
16 April 2020 AZRAQ CAMP, Jordan/HOMS, Syria/UNITED NATIONS, New York – “I invested the first four days of the lockdown calling beneficiaries to inform them of the availability of virtual support,” Orouba Amin, a counsellor in the Azraq refugee camp in…

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