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Funding uncertainty weighs on UN maternal health agency

PATTAYA, Thailand — Ten years ago, Ukraine wasn’t a relatively large recipient of international aid for health and family planning.

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Funding uncertainty weighs on UN maternal health agency - Roll Call

The U.S. has ping-ponged between supporting the United Nations Population Fund and pulling its funding altogether.

Roll Call

Natural Disasters Increase Displacement Rates to 34% in Yemen

A majority of Yemen's internally displaced wish to return to their areas of origin, contrary to previous data from last year's beginning, according to recent data by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). According to data in the second half of 2022, 41…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Organon prioritises cross-sectoral collaboration to drive 'Smart Families' progress

Unintended pregnancy remains a significant global health issue. A recent UNFPA report suggesting nearly half of all pregnancies, totaling 121 million each year worldwide, are unintended and more than 160 million women have limited access to contraceptives.

Bangkok Post

In Kenya, these interventions are decreasing maternal mortality

In five years, a Kenyan county with one of the highest maternal mortality numbers nationwide has changed its fortunes.

Al Jazeera

‘Hungry for days’: Drought’s cruel toll on pregnant Somali women

Somalia is grappling with its worst drought in 40 years; it’s taking a toll on women’s and girls’ reproductive health.

Al Jazeera

United Nations leaders call for 'rapid decoupling' from fossil fuels as global population hits 8 billion people

United Nations leaders are calling for a "rapid" move away from fossil fuels and emissions in order for the global population to thrive in coming years.

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Earth welcomes its 8 billionth baby. Is that good or bad news... or a bit of both?

Sometime today, the global population is forecast to hit 8 billion. The U.N. calls it a milestone for humanity, made possible by advances in public health and medicine. But there are also challenges.

WEKU

Population growth slows in India as world reaches eight billion

India will still become the world’s most populous country next year, according to UN estimates.

Al Jazeera

It should not be controversial to say a population of 8 billion will have a grave impact on the climate

The hard fact is that human numbers matter – and the impact of 2-3 billion more of us will be immense, says John Vidal

The Guardian - UK

Pregnant women struggle to find care after Pakistan's floods

Pregnant women are struggling to get care after Pakistan’s unprecedented flooding this summer that inundated a third of the country at its height and drove millions from their homes

The Independent UK

It's a bleak 'Day of the Girl' because of the pandemic. But no one's giving up hope

The United Nations established the Day of the Girl a decade ago to address issues that affect girls' rights: education, teen pregnancy, child marriage. Steady progress has been made. Then came COVID.

WEKU

Floods Affect 150,000 Women in Yemen, 200,000 Others at Risk

Women and girls in Yemen suffer the harshest fallout from the severe funding shortfall of the Humanitarian Rapid Response Mechanism and the floods that struck most of the refugee camps in several governorates, recent UN reports revealed. Of the 4.3 million people displaced within Yemen, more than three-quarters are women…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘The hospital has nothing’: Pakistan’s floods put pregnant women in danger

A third of the country is under water and a UN fund says almost 650,000 women in affected areas need maternity services

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Women stranded in Pakistan floods take risky trips to give birth

Rubina Mallah took a perilous, three-hour boat journey across flood waters to get to the nearest hospital in time to give birth to her baby son, as the roads leading to the clinic in the southern Pakistani city of Sehwan were submerged.

Radio France Internationale

India develops indigenous cervical cancer vaccine to save millions of lives

India's homegrown cervical cancer shot, announced on Thursday, will be made available first to the country's poorest before being exported to other countries in need.

Bangkok Post

Humanitarians in the age of crises

The lights are flashing red as we look at the cascade of humanitarian crises in Asia and the Pacific.

Radio France Internationale

Life expectancy increases in Africa by 10 years, but not for all

The World Health Organization (WHO) has praised African countries for improvements in health services that have seen average life expectancy jump by a whopping 10 years.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Run philosophy’: the Chinese citizens seeking to leave amid Covid uncertainty

With Beijing’s zero Covid policy set to continue, many disillusioned citizens have begun planning to leave the country

Asharq Al-Awsat

KSrelief Supports Life-Saving Reproductive Health Program in Yemen

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has announced a contribution of $2.5 million, supporting the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), to provide life-saving reproductive health services to the most vulnerable women and girls in Yemen. The funding will help increase access to reproductive health services for women…

WEKU

Global reproductive and women's rights groups react to overturn of Roe v. Wade

Some nonprofit groups have welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court decision. But many global reproductive and women's rights groups condemned the ruling.

Reuters

Restricting abortion just makes it more deadly, says U.N. after U.S. ruling

Restricting abortion access does not stop people seeking the procedure "it only makes it more deadly," a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 1973 decision legalizing abortion.

The Guardian - UK

‘Blood on their hands’: world’s medics condemn US overturn of abortion rights

Statement signed by more than 100 global healthcare groups says US court decision ‘will cost lives for years to come’

Bangkok Post

Maintaining dignity during periods

Across the region, the unique needs of women and girls are often overlooked -- particularly their menstrual health. When a disaster hits, people who menstruate often do not have access to menstrual materials such as pads and underwear in a context that lacks clean water and waste disposal systems.

Al Jazeera

UNFPA holds forum in Ghana on connecting African diaspora

The forum is part of a UN initiative to advance rights of people of African descent and connect the diaspora to Africa.

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