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AIryna and her daughter, Amelia, who was delivered at a UNFPA hospital. Six UNFPA hospitals have been damaged by drone strikes this year. © UNFPA Ukraine
One year after the U.S. government terminated hundreds of millions of dollars in support for women and girls, 750,000 women and girls in Ukraine remain without access to lifesaving sexual and reproductive healthcare services.
Now, in the fifth year of this crisis, hospitals have been pushed past their breaking point. Babies are being born too early, and their mothers are dying during childbirth. Survivors of violence are struggling to find help and a safe place to live amid relentless shelling and blackouts.
When systems collapse, women and girls are always at risk of being left behind. But, thanks to your support, we are there.
Our teams are operating mobile clinics, training midwives, and opening maternity hospitals across Ukraine. Will you make a gift to deliver care in Ukraine and wherever women and girls need support most?
A UNFPA mobile health team in rural Ukraine before driving a pregnant mother for eight hours to a hospital for an emergency cesarean, saving her life. © UNFPA Ukraine
Our teams are on the ground reaching women and girls across Ukraine despite facing increasingly difficult and dangerous conditions. Just last week, ambulance medics in Kyiv were injured while responding to an attack. Last month, two medics were killed after leaving a UNFPA hospital.
“There is no option to turn back,” said Liudmyla, a doctor working with a mobile health clinic in Ukraine. “If we have arrived, we will provide care. We examine every woman who comes—without exception.”
From remote villages to the frontlines of war, our teams bring lifesaving services to women and girls, and your gift helps them get there.
Will you send a gift today to keep UNFPA mobile health teams on the road in Ukraine and in crisis zones everywhere?
Thank you for being there when women and girls need support most.
USA for UNFPA
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