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28 April 2020
Press Release

New UNFPA projections predict calamitous impact on women’s health as COVID-19 pandemic continues

'The pandemic is deepening inequalities, and millions more women and girls now risk losing the ability to plan their families and protect their... Read more

20 April 2020
Press Release

यूएनएफपीएद्वारा नेपाल सरकारलाई १,२०० पिपिइ किट्स हस्तान्तरण

नेपालमा कोभिड–१९ सङ्क्रमण रोकथाम तथा नियन्त्रणमा नेपाल सरकारले गरेको प्रयासमा सहयोग पुर्‍याउने प्रतिबद्धता अनुरुप यूएनएफपीएले १,२०० व्यक्तिगत सुरक्षा... Read more

20 April 2020
Press Release

UNFPA hands over 1,200 PPE kits to Nepal government

Alongside WHO and other UN agencies working in Nepal, UNFPA stands ready to support the government in its preparedness and response to this pandemic

7 April 2020
Statement

World Health Day: Protecting midwives to keep women and babies safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic

On this World Health Day, we mark the first International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. Midwives are central to everything we do at UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health... Read more

27 March 2020
Statement

Women, girls, health workers must not be overlooked in COVID-19 response

As with most crises, this pandemic has severely disrupted access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health services and hampered authorities’... Read more

8 March 2020
Statement

I am Generation Equality: Working together to achieve a gender-equal world

Glimmers of progress – to end violence, to call out bias and discrimination, to ensure bodily autonomy and integrity, to secure equality – remind us... Read more

5 March 2020
Statement

COVID-19 and pregnancy: UNFPA's statement

UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, is closely monitoring and working with partners, governments and UN agencies to address the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19),... Read more

5 March 2020
Statement

कोरोना भाइरस (कोभिड– १९) र गर्भावस्था सम्बन्धी युएनएफपीएको वक्तव्य

प्रजनन उमेरका र गर्भवती महिलालाई सङ्क्रमणबारे सावधानी, सम्भावित जोखिम र समयमै स्वास्थ्य सेवा कसरी लिने भन्नेबारेमा सही जानकारी प्रदान गर्ने कुरा... Read more

10 December 2019
Statement

Youth Standing up for Human Rights

Let’s advance rights and choices for all by supporting youth activists, youth networks and youth organizations, amplifying the voices of young people... Read more

3 December 2019
News

Strengthening midwifery education in Nepal

Improving the quality of midwifery care could avert 80 per cent of maternal deaths.

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