United Nations Population Fund

A health facility in Tanzania’s Simiyu region, which was renovated through a two-year programme supported by UNFPA with funding from KOICA.

Safe birth services save lives, prevent childbirth injury in Tanzania

Aina attends a prenatal consultation with midwife Bakoly Rasoamanontany at Itaosy District Hospital of Reference.

Free transport helps pregnant women in Madagascar safely deliver amid COVID-19 lockdown

Africa COVID-19

Contact tracers are urgently being recruited, trained and deployed to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the challenges they face are similar to those in the earlier Ebola epidemic, including mistrust and misinformation.

Learning from Ebola experience, Liberia deploys contact tracers to break COVID-19 transmission

“I will not succumb to short-lived challenges and give up,” says Dawit Mequanint, a midwife in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia's midwives grapple with the COVID-19 while ensuring safe delivery

Africa COVID-19

Yveka, 17, visits a UNFPA mobile clinic in Haiti. Haiti's former Minister of Women, Dr. Lise Marie Dejean, says many women lack autonomy over their bodies and health

Staggering numbers of women unable to exercise decision-making over their own bodies, new UNFPA report shows

Women face increased risk of violence, loss of livelihoods and other threats under the pandemic

As pandemic rages, women and girls face intensified risks

Africa COVID-19

"I want my daughters to be respected as human beings," says Fawzia Koofi, a trailblazer in Afghanistan.

“We must resolutely resist any attempts to go back”: Listening to the icons and activists of women’s rights

Woman carrying child on back.

This is how much it will cost to realize the world we want

Africa maternal deaths