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25/11/2022

UNFPA Representative in Ukraine, Jaime Nadal, speaks with BBC World about attacks on maternity hospitals in Ukraine and how UNFPA helps ensure that women can access life-saving reproductive health facilities amid the war in the country.

23/09/2022

Summary of UNFPA Eastern Europe and Central Asia's “Inclusive Family Policies for a Better Future” conference which took place in Istanbul on 22 September 2022. The event brought together policymakers, the private sector and experts to discuss gender-responsive family policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

07/07/2022

UNFPA in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Ensuring that all people can fulfill their potential and that everyone counts.

20/06/2022

The war in Ukraine has separated millions of fathers from their families. Oleksandr is one of them.

07/06/2022

100 days of war in Ukraine have left millions of lives hanging in the balance. As part of the wider United Nations response, UNFPA is providing life-saving support and supplies to urgently meet reproductive health needs: http://unf.pa/uke. This war must end.

19/04/2022

Natalia is a UNFPA-supported psychologist who is working with Ukrainian women and girls who fled to Moldova.

29/03/2022

More than 13 metric tons of desperately needed reproductive health supplies, medicines and equipment have been shipped to Ukraine by UNFPA as stocks at health facilities run dangerously low one month after the Russian invasion. The supplies, which include lifesaving medicines for the management of obstetric emergencies and treatment for the clinical management of rape, will support service providers at health centres in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia. They are sufficient to cover the immediate reproductive health needs of a population of 500,000 people.

21/03/2022

On her recent visit to a refugee shelter in Moldova, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem met women who fled the war in Ukraine with just what they could carry.

Many of them fear for their future as they do not know where to go or what to do.

Their rights, needs and safety must be prioritized.

09/03/2022

Daria Smirnova, 33, left Odessa, Ukraine with her mother and son and arrived in Chișinău, the capital of the Republic of Moldova, approximately 180 kilometres away. Nine months pregnant with another boy, she is due to give birth in a matter of weeks.

“Above my house, I saw a burning missile, which was terrifying. We started packing, moved to the basement and stayed there that night,” she says.

UNFPA is on the ground providing information on reproductive health services and referring pregnant women like Ms. Smirnova to medical care units.

07/03/2022

Nearly 100,000 Ukrainian refugees have crossed the border into Moldova since the beginning of the conflict. Most of the refugees are women with children, and older persons. At a placement center for refugees in Chisinau, Moldova, UNFPA donated dignity kits to support women with their basic hygiene and sanitary needs.

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