UNFPA, DMA, & key stakeholders agree that coordination is essential to ensuring women & girls access lifesaving #SRHR services & protection from #GBV amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis. They met to review progress and map the way forward in the response.
🚨 Lesotho’s maternal mortality rate remains alarmingly high at 530 deaths per 100,000 live births. No woman should die giving life.
Access to quality maternal healthcare, skilled birth attendants & family planning can save lives! #EndMaternalMortality#UNFPALesotho
Following the drought that hit #Lesotho during the last planting season, @UNFPA & @LesothoRedCross provided psychosocial support and dignity kits to vulnerable women & girls. Join us in uplifting women & girls — your support can help restore hope and dignity. #HumanitarianRelief
Midwives are essential to safe births. Midwives save lives! Your support can provide critical training and resources to midwives in underserved areas. Help make every birth a safe one—donate to UNFPA. #WorldHealthDay#HealthForAll#HopefulFutures#HealthyBeginings
#PapuaNewGuinea: We are empowering communities through coffee! ☕
@UNFPA_PNG & Monpi Coffee Exports are improving health & reducing #genderbasedviolence in coffee-growing regions. Over 4,600 farmers have been trained in sexual & reproductive health, financial literacy & more. 🌱
Learn more: https://t.co/woF98HD0ke
#CoffeeForChange #ImpactInnovation #EmpowerWomen
@TsekoThapelo Apparently that system reflects on their performance and the longer its takes in preparation it looks bad. There is a standard time you have to wait for your food. One time moo @Masianokeng I was asked to go outside and they would deliver at the car bcz they were being assesed
🚨 Nearly half a million women and girls worldwide are suffering needlessly from obstetric fistula and thousands of new cases occur annually.
See how @UNFPA is taking action and join the global campaign to #EndFistula: https://t.co/DfbLtBmp6t
#GlobalGoals
Breaking the Cycle: Preventing Fistula
Women in #Lesotho and elsewhere should not have to suffer from preventable childbirth injuries like obstetric fistula.
Let's raise awareness and support prevention efforts
#EndFistula
@KennyNuga@stats_feed@_AfricanUnion Unfortunately, in some of our countries, like Lesotho, we do not know where this data comes from, and while we believe we do have challenges, we do not believe this data truly reflects the situation on the ground. I have personally consulted the BOS and they are also not aware
@stats_feed What is the source of your data for Lesotho at this point, Most of the Reliable data sources in Lesotho do not have this information, including the Bureau of Statistics.
#OurCommonFuture depends on how well we let young people lead.
Meaningful youth engagement must become the norm rather than the exception.
During #CPD57, join @UNFPA to call on world leaders to let #YouthLead!
#ICPD30
Thank You @EUinLesotho Head of Delegation Ms Paula Amadei for hosting @UNFPA Representative to Lesotho, Mr I. Modisaotsile, putting high on the agenda the health of women and girls, the need for supporting efforts to end Gender Based Violence #GBV and Menstrual Health in #Lesotho
As part of the #Bicentennial Celebrations in #Lesotho, the month of April has been earmarked for Health - Access to health care, in tandem with @UNFPA’s mission of working towards universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including family planning #FP.
In other news, #Lesotho_police pounced on a motor vehicle suspected to be driving below speed limit on a national road. A guilty looking driver has been taken in for further interrogations while the passenger faces hefty fine for K53 safety belt violations!!! Source unverified
Village Health Workers in Mokhotlong district have become very instrumental in dispensing #condoms, contraception pills and Self-Injection Depo- Sayana Press. Most of them like 'Mautloanang Mokone say "Sayana" is the most preferred & popular #FamilyPlanning method among the women
@Lengau_11@Kay405Kay Kannete I was about to say the same... and those who know Her know exactly how she felt ache che ntate Khoabane ha a sa tseba na u loana kang.