Funding cuts and worsening humanitarian conditions are leaving millions of Afghan children and mothers without the nutrition and healthcare they urgently need.

WFP-backed Nashonuma programme reduces child stunting in Pakistan through nutrition support, counselling, and maternal health services.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mobile ultrasound services do more than save lives, they offer reassurance and moments of joy to expectant mothers. Discover what this support means for women

Women and children displaced by violence in Sudan are walking for up to 40 days to reach safety, with pregnant women giving birth along the way. UNFPA, led by Fabrizia Falcione, is on the ground providing urgent healthcare and support to save lives amid this crisis.

The World Health Organisation Academy creates learner-centered, culturally and contextually adapted courses that equip health and care workers, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with the skills and knowledge they need to meet evolving healthcare challenges.

In Gaza’s makeshift classrooms, fortified snacks and nutrition support are helping children regain stability, return to learning and remember that their role is to grow, dream and be children again.

Angela Bassett, award winning actress, highlights that for mothers and newborns in crises, a $5 UNFPA Emergency Birth Kit can mean the difference between life and death.

Gavi and UNICEF have reached a new pricing agreement that will cut the cost of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine to $2.99 per dose within a year. Malaria kills nearly one child under five every minute. 

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there lived a silent creature named polio...

Should women have more children? Let's explore with Shudufhadzo Musida, United Nations Population Agency Global Champion for Women and Girls.

NBA All-Star and two-time NBA champion Pau Gasol, UNICEF’s Global Champion for Nutrition and Zero Childhood Obesity, is helping lead the fight against the global childhood obesity pandemic by whipping up a healthy recipe for change. 

In 2025, obesity surpassed underweight among children for the first time, driven by toxic food environments, while UNICEF’s “Fix My Food” movement empowers youth worldwide to advocate for healthier, more equitable food policies.

A Chance to Breathe. Tiny cries, big hope: incubators are giving Somalia’s newborns a fighting chance. Imagine holding your breath, waiting for your newborn’s first cry, and hearing only silence... That was Faduma’s reality in Mogadishu, until a simple incubator gave her baby the breath of life. In this powerful, heart-tugging story from UNFPA, discover how a handful of life-saving machines —incubators, oxygen units, and surgical gear — are transforming hospitals once teetering on the edge of despair. Meet the unstoppable health workers defying the odds, mothers who turn fear into joy, and the miracle of modern care in places where even electricity isn’t a guarantee. It’s a story of survival, love, and why funding matters — because every breath counts.

From measles to polio, immunization has saved 154 million lives in 50 years—and holds the key to a future where no child dies from preventable diseases.

Pregnant women and new mothers in the West Bank are facing life-threatening risks as violence, displacement, and the collapse of healthcare services leave them without access to essential care.

Maternal health is a critical global issue, most of which are preventable with timely, skilled care. Although progress has been made, inequalities persist, particularly in fragile and humanitarian settings, requiring urgent action to ensure universal access to quality maternal health services as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.