sexual and reproductive health

Babies at a neonatal intensive unit at a hospital in Kampala, Uganda, which was refurbished with support from UNFPA.
UNICEF/Catherine Ntabadde

UK’s 85% family planning aid cut will be devastating for women and girls says UNFPA, while UNAIDS also 'deeply regrets' cuts

29 April 2021
Women

The United Kingdom’s intention to cut 85 per cent of its contribution to a flagship UN family planning programme this year, will have devastating consequences for women and girls and their families across the world, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) said on Thursday.

Young women and girls carry water in Nigeria (file photo).
World Bank

Conflict, climate crisis, threaten fragile gains to advance women and children’s health

25 September 2020
Women

Fragile gains made over the past decade to advance women and children’s health are threatened by conflict, the climate crisis and COVID-19, according to a new report from Every Woman Every Child, released on Friday.

UNFPA and partners are distributing dignity kits to women in Beirut following the devasting explosion.
UNFPA

Lebanon: Working on the ground to meet basic needs of Beirut’s women and girls

13 September 2020
Women

A month after the Beirut Port explosion, life remains uncertain for thousands of women and girls. Among the displaced are an estimated 84,000 women and girls of reproductive age.

People living in Lagos State in Nigeria, simulate sneezing into their elbows during a coronavirus prevention campaign.
© UNICEF/Ojo

UNFPA advocates for women, girls suffering unseen impacts of COVID-19 pandemic

27 March 2020
Women

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is pledging support for those suffering from invisible impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including women and girls whose access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health care may be disrupted. 

A medical team which treats obstetric fistula at Al Thawara Hospital in Yemen
©UNFPA Yemen

Yemen: UN Population Fund stresses women’s needs, amidst world’s worst humanitarian crisis 

4 March 2020
Women

Intense clashes in Yemen’s Al Hazam City, this month have caused massive displacement with an estimated 1,800 families forced to flee their homes, according to a flash update from UN humanitarian coordination office, OCHA.  

Syphilis is a curable sexually transmitted infection. (file)
© UNICEF/Jan Mun

More than one million sexually transmitted infections occur every day: WHO

6 June 2019
Health

The global scale of sexually transmitted infections (STI) should be a “wake-up call” to governments, UN health experts said on Thursday, citing data showing that one in 25 people today have “at least one” curable STI, which occur at a rate of more than one million a day worldwide.