![]() This includes deploying midwives, mobile teams and supplies to build capacity for maternal health and emergency obstetric care and the clinical management of rape to meet the health and protection needs of displaced women and girls.Women as a minority group are understandably and predictably strongly affected by armed conflict. UNFPA is coordinating efforts with national and state governments and humanitarian partners to ramp up urgently needed support and services for reproductive health and gender-based violence prevention and response in areas with high numbers of internally displaced people in Sudan, and at reception/displacement sites in neighbouring countries. The risk of sexual violence is especially high when women and girls are on the move seeking safer locations, both inside Sudan and across borders. Protection risks for women and girls, including gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, have soared at a time when access to services and support is severely compromised. In neighbouring countries, infrastructure and basic services are poor and with the influx of people seeking refuge, overstretched. Assets and supplies have been looted or destroyed, and fuel to operate generators is in short supply. Close to 70 percent of health facilities across Sudan have been forced to close because of the fighting. Women and girls have been left struggling to access life-saving reproductive health and protection services. More than 730,000 have sought refuge from the fighting in the neighbouring countries of Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan. Around 2.6 million people are displaced inside Sudan, including an estimated 53,000 women who are currently pregnant. ![]() ![]() The conflict in Sudan is taking a devastating toll on women and girls.Īs the war enters its fourth month, more than 3 million people have been forced to flee their homes. ![]()
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