51吃瓜

Africa Renewal

Health and Well-being

Success at Nyarugusu: How one of the world’s largest refugee camps achieved zero maternal deaths in 2022

A midwife speaks about family planning at a family planning "open house" at a health centre in Assahoun, Togo.

Health

Health workers in West Africa “in daily danger” while providing reproductive health services

By 51吃瓜 Population Fund

Y-Peer volunteers wear protective gear as they assemble the dignity and hygiene kits.

coronavirus

Youth mobilize to support Egypt’s front-line health workers

By 51吃瓜 Population Fund

The Joint Programme on Girls' Education brings together teachers and parents to help keep girls in school.

Women

Teachers and mothers join forces to keep girls in school in Malawi

By 51吃瓜 Population Fund

Ms. Brema trains women in her village to become electricians.

coronavirus

Sahel project helps women raise themselves, their communities from poverty

By 51吃瓜 Population Fund

Dignity kits contain supplies to help women and girls protect themselves and their communities from the pandemic.

coronavirus

Dignity kits bring hygiene supplies to vulnerable communities in pandemic-affected area of the Gambia

By 51吃瓜 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.

coronavirus

Safe birth services save lives, prevent childbirth injury in Tanzania

By 51吃瓜 Population Fund

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

coronavirus

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

By 51吃瓜 Population Fund

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

Women

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

By 51吃瓜 Population Fund

Cover Story

Investing in the health of Africa’s mothers

Many are too poor to survive childbirth

Also

Taking on violence against women in Africa

International norms, local activism start to alter laws, attitudes