Photo Gallery Safe Mother and Baby

For refugee women, pregnancy and childbirth can be fraught with risk. Those living in impoverished and isolated settlements may have no access to basic antenatal services or emergency obstetric care.

Refugee mothers are more likely to be poorly nourished and suffer from debilitating conditions like malaria-induced anaemia, a blood disorder which greatly increases the risk of miscarriage and post-natal haemorrhage.

Even those with a tradition of homebirth may, in an emergency camp, lack the simple means to make their birth environment clean, exposing themselves and their newborns to the risk of post-natal infection.