24.7 million people — about half the population of Sudan — need humanitarian aid and protection from the ongoing civil strife.

Many have been internally displaced or fled to dire conditions in neighboring countries — and the conflict in Sudan is taking an especially devastating toll on women and girls.

Close to 70 percent of health facilities across Sudan have been forced to close because of the fighting, so women and girls are struggling to access lifesaving reproductive health and protection services. Assets and supplies have been looted or destroyed and fuel to operate generators is in short supply. In neighboring countries, infrastructure and basic services are poor and stretched thin.

Risks of violence against women, sexual exploitation and abuse have soared at a time when access to services and support is severely compromised. The risk of sexual violence is especially high when women and girls are on the move seeking safer locations, both inside Sudan and across borders.

Thanks to your gifts, UNFPA is coordinating efforts with national and state governments and humanitarian partners to ramp up urgently needed support and services for reproductive health and violence prevention and response. This includes deploying midwives, mobile teams, and supplies to build capacity for maternal health and emergency obstetric care and the clinical management of rape to meet the health and protection needs of displaced women and girls.

As fighting continues in Sudan, we cannot look away from the women and girls whose needs are going overlooked while fleeing violence. Millions are counting on your gifts.

Make a gift of any amount to deliver lifesaving care to the women and girls who need it most:

At nine months pregnant, Omnia left her home and everything she knew behind to escape the violent conflict engulfing Sudan’s capital Khartoum.

Although traveling while pregnant was dangerous, she felt she had no choice. Roiling insecurity, active shooting, and the looting and destruction of health facilities meant she hadn’t been able to see a doctor in weeks.

"I lost everything in the war," Omnia said. "I did not want to lose my unborn child too."

It was an arduous five-day journey, but in early June, she arrived in Port Sudan, on the coast of the Red Sea state. Omnia made it to the UNFPA-supported Port Sudan Teaching Hospital, where she went into labor. She had a difficult pregnancy and faced complications with the delivery, but the health staff helped her to give birth by C-section to a healthy baby girl named Lana.

"Now I see her smiling again, thanks to the doctors and midwives in the hospital," said Omnia’s mother.

Your gifts deliver lifesaving care and trained midwives to support new mothers like Omnia. But with the situation in Sudan escalating, millions more vulnerable pregnant women are counting on you to step up:

Please: Make an emergency gift to deliver lifesaving care to women and girls in Sudan and beyond. Millions remain at risk as violence escalates and health centers shut their doors.

Thank you for always being there for women and girls.

— USA for UNFPA