In remote rural villages, difficulties in reaching health services and trained health staff are life-threatening for mothers and their infants. A two-year diploma programme supported by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is helping to change that.
As Cyclone Mocha battered Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees faced life-threatening pregnancy complications amid destroyed health facilities. Skilled midwives at a UNFPA hospital saved new mother Khadija, showing the vital need for maternal care when crises and climate disasters strike the displaced.
International Medical Corps Midwife Bertha Tabi is making sure that children in remote parts of Northwest Cameroon have access to childhood vaccines.