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News and Press Release in English on Timor-Leste about Gender and Health; published on 15 May 2023 by UNFPA

International Day of the Midwife 2021: Investing in midwives could save 4.3 million lives every year Format Dr. José Antonio Gusmão Guterres, a gynaecologist and a midwife trainer at a mobile meternity clinic facilitated by UNFPA at Christal Dili, one of the floods evacuation center for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Dili, Timor-Leste. © UNFPA Timor-Leste 2021 DILI, May 3, 2021 – Timor-Leste President, H.E. Francisco Guterres Lú Olo renewed a 30-day State of Emergency last week to contain the spread of COVID-19, as the country rocovers from flash floods that affected more than 3...

Providing mobile meternity clinics to displaced women and babies in evacuation centers following devastating floods amidst COVID-19. © UNFPA Timor-Leste 2021 DILI April 13, 2021 -- The Government of Timor-Leste declared a one-month state of calamity in Dili and appealed for relief assistance last week to respond to effects of devastating floods that left more than 13,000 people displaced. According to the Secretariat of State for Civil Protection the flash floods have claimed 46 lives while many are reported missing or presumed dead. Strict lockdown in Dili, in place since early March, was t...

DILI April 08, 2021 -- Humanitarian workers continued rescue missions Wednesday in remote locations in Timor-Leste using excavators and cranes, as death toll from recent flash floods reached 42, even as many are still reported missing by local authorities. Families relied on the generosity of their neighbours to seek temporary shelter in the few houses left standing after the devastating floods and landslides that affected an estimated 10,000 people in the island nation. Impassable roads and power black-outs that engulfed the country hindered relief efforts. Anna Dosantos Lucia, a 39-year-ol...