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16 March 2016
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Midwife Finds her Work with Refugees Challenging and Rewarding
ZA’ATRI CAMP, Jordan –- Holding a newborn in her hands is like “heaven” says a young midwife Ghadeer Taher Horani, who struggled to find the exact…
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16 March 2016
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Delivering Sensitive Reproductive Health Care to Syrian Refugees in Jordan
ZA'ATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Mafraq, Jordan — As a way to address both health needs and cultural sensitivities, UNFPA is supporting a reproductive health clinic with a female…
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16 March 2016
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Serving Syrian refugee women amid Iraq's escalating crisis
AMMAN/NEW YORK - Over 200,000 Syrian refugees are living in Iraq, having escaped the four-year-long conflict in their homeland. Yet for some, the move offers little respite…
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05 February 2016
Flight from Syria: The story of one child bride
NABATIEH, Lebanon – In late 2013, Haneen, now 14, fled Syria with her parents and 10 siblings. As her family made its way to the Turkish border, her father sustained injuries that…
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22 December 2015
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Health needs paramount as refugees and migrants stream through Serbia
SID, Serbia – Every day, thousands of refugees and migrants stream through Serbia, one leg of their perilous journey towards safety and stability…
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07 October 2015
Despite trauma, a little help goes a long way for Syrian refugees
AMMAN, Jordan – “I’d just gotten off the night shift,” said ‘Aida*, a nurse, describing the morning her neighbourhood in Ghouta, Syria, was…
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24 August 2015
Syrian refugee parents take a stand against child marriage
AMMAN, Jordan – Child marriages appear to be rising among Syrian refugees as families grow increasingly desperate under the grinding four-year-old conflict. …
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14 August 2015
5000th baby born at a UNFPA-supported clinic for refugees in Jordan
ZAATARI, Jordan – When Mohammad and Kholoud Suliman were told that their infant daughter was the 5000th baby born at the UNFPA-supported women’s clinic in Jordan’s Zaatari refugee…
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25 June 2015
Shortage in funding threatens care for pregnant Syrian refugees
EL NABATIEH, Lebanon/DEIR ALLA, Jordan – More than four years after conflict erupted in Syria, the chaos has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world…
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