Promoting women’s health worldwide

19-02-2009 Photo Collection

The ICRC cares for all the victims of conflict but it adapts this care to meet their needs. Specific services for women affected by conflict include support for rape victims, medical care for women in places of detention, antenatal and postnatal care for mothers and babies, the provision of hygiene requisites/training and rehabilitation for female mine victims.

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Sudan. Camp for internally displaced persons, Gereida. A Sudanese doctor examines a pregnant woman.

Armed conflict can disrupt the normal patterns of daily life, especially access to health care. Pregnant women and nursing mothers may have limited antenatal and postnatal care, and little or no medical assistance for the delivery itself. This can result in more women and babies dying during childbirth. Additional barriers to health care can include cultural restrictions, whereby women have to be treated separately from men, or only by women.

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