Approximately 200,000 people have spontaneously gathered and settled in sites where they lack essential needs. Humanitarian agencies need to urgently step up and scale up assistance to people.
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UNFPA wants to reduce the risk to healthcare providers providing obstetric and gynecological care during the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This initiative comes as a response to growing evidence that reproductive health services and maternity wards frequently manipulate several types of biological fluid throughout the chain of reproductive and maternal health care; ranging from gynecological consultations to the management of wastes after child birth.
Helena Nordenstedt and Hans Rosling published a Comment in The Lancet, titled Chasing 60% of maternal deaths in the post-fact era, that points out an inaccurate and widely used statistic on maternal mortality in humanitarian settings.
Four leading aid organizations are scaling up operations to assist Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia as the number of Venezuelans displaced in the region passes 4.8 million.
Last month, sexual and reproductive health experts, advocates, and professionals gathered at the Nairobi Summit, which recognized the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking International Conference on Population and Development, which took place in Cairo in 1994.