Development

From cyclones to safe births, midwives stay and deliver in Madagascar

Midwife Marie Nancy Christiane holds newborn baby Noelia after helping to deliver her in a UNFPA emergency maternity tent in Mananjary, in Madagascar’s southeastern Vatovavy region. © UNFPA/Tsiry Fy-Tia Solofomihanta

08 June 2022

Ukraine humanitarian response supported by data collaboration

Ukrainian refugees receive psychosocial support in Moldova. © UNFPA/Siegfried Modola

09 June 2022

Fighting the stigma of living with HIV in Sri Lanka

The HIV prevalence rate in Sri Lanka is estimated at less than .1 per cent but self-stigma may prevent some people living with HIV from being reflected in national data. © UNFPA Sri Lanka

01 June 2022

Safe lubricants for all - Procurement specifications for lubricants used with male and female condoms (Technical brief)

Number of pages: 25

Publication date: 31 May 2022

Author: UNFPA

The lack of global specifications for safe and non-toxic personal lubricants led UNFPA and partners to develop guidance for professionals who produce, procure and distribute these products for reproductive health programmes.

This publication presents the World Health Organization/United Nations Population Fund specifications for plain lubricants to be used with male and female condoms, and addresses issues raised in the global consultation on personal lubricants convened by UNFPA, as well as key concepts and terminology.

Women take the lead with new counselling and support centre in Palestine

A meeting is held at the newly established women-run centre in Issawiyah, Jerusalem. Image courtesy of PCC.

02 June 2022

Ethiopia’s worst drought in 40 years threatens to derail gains made in maternal and newborn health

In Ethiopia's Somali region, a makeshift camp in the village of Gabi’as shelters some 800 households displaced by relentless drought. The parched land is scattered with animal corpses, after three consecutive failed rainy seasons killed nearly 1.5 million livestock across the region. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo

19 May 2022

World Population Day 2022

World Refugee Day 2022

Pioneering 25-year-old parliamentarian from Namibia and National Population and Family Planning Board in Indonesia win 2022 UN Population Award