Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended. presents how unintended pregnancies can contribute to the shame, stigma and misunderstandings that must be overcome to end this crisis.
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Midwives everywhere step up for women and newborns. The University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan began working with to for local health personnel.
One of the winning ideas of is solar-powered motorcycles to reach pregnant women at home. Winners receive seed funding and a six-month incubation programme.
During a humanitarian crisis, the conditions that erode womens ability to exercise bodily autonomy and reproductive choice increase catastrophically, multiplying the risks of unintended pregnancy.
Valentina Ejova breathed a sigh of relief only when she crossed the border. In both Ukraine and neighbouring countries hosting refugees, is distributing dignity kits among other services.
For the third year in a row, Yemen is the country needing the most humanitarian funding support in the world. Of the 20.7 million people needing assistance, 12 million are in acute need. Though last years $100 million humanitarian appeal was only half funded, reached nearly 2.8 million people with reproductive health services and emergency relief. Without additional funding, nearly 1.3 million women will be left without access to reproductive health care and protection and psychosocial support.
11th-grader Viktoria Kravets has had to set aside textbooks for now and is helping her countrymen as a volunteer registering refugees with Tvory Volunteering Centre, which works with Molodvizh, a peer-to-peer youth organization and partner. About a third of her friends and relatives have left Ukraine. But she's staying: "I never thought I would be involved in this kind of activity helping hundreds of people a day looking for transport to the border or distracting them from horrible thoughts.
Nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year throughout the world, are unintended. For the women and girls affected, the most life-altering reproductive choicewhether or not to become pregnantis no choice at all, explains the , by . A world where every pregnancy is wanted is a UNFPA core goal. Here are seven myths about unintended pregnancy that contribute to the shame, stigma and misunderstandings that must be overcome to end this crisis.
Elena and her teenage daughter Tatiana fled the war in Odessa, Ukraine to seek shelter in Chiinu, Moldova. To this day, more than 3 million Ukrainians have crossed borders into neighboring countries. Like Elena and Tatiana, most of them are women and children who left their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons behind. on how is taking action to respond to their needs. UNFPAs priority now is to safeguard the health and rights of women and girls, including to give birth safely and to live free from violence and abuse. #Withrefugees
Internally displaced persons rely on mobile health teams deployed by to remote areas of Afghanistan, where health services have been severely disrupted. Even before recent upheavals, Afghanistan had one of the maternal mortality rates in the Asia and Pacific region at 638 deaths per 100,000 live births. Without additional funding, this number could soar to 963 deaths between now and 2025. In its , UNFPA seeks to raise $251.9 million to continue and expand services to address the reproductive health needs of 9.3 million Afghans.
has operated programmes in Ukraine since 1997 and in the Republic of Moldova since 1995. In addition to providing technical and programme advisory services to the neighbouring countries to the Ukraine that are receiving refugees, the agency is working to bring reproductive health equipment and supplies and mobile health teams providing sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services to Ukraine. It continues to operate 10 shelters, eight crisis rooms and a support hotline for gender-based violence survivors.
At the Starobilsk Multidisciplinary Hospital in Luhansk, women are giving birth in the basement with artillery shelling nearby. This woman had a baby boy on a day the hospital issued three bomb alerts. There are an estimated 265,000 pregnant women in Ukraine, 80,000 of whom will deliver in the next three months. remains on the ground and is preparing to increase operational capacity to deliver life-saving sexual and reproductive health services and supplies.
In the days since Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine, the world has seen the photographs of women giving birth in underground metro stations and newborns hastily being moved to makeshift bomb shelters as health facilities become inaccessible or too damaged to function. An estimated 80,000 women will give birth in the next three months in Ukraine many of them without access to critical maternal health care. remains on the ground and is preparing to increase operational capacity to deliver life-saving sexual and reproductive health services and supplies.
In Yemen, people are living through the worlds largest humanitarian crisis. 20.7 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance or protection. Expectant mothers are particularly vulnerable as they face life threatening shortages for maternal health services.