UNFPA responds to emergencies in a wide range of situations and settings. The need might be to reach women in a refugee camp to work only with men, or to find internally displaced persons who are dispersed throughout the local population. Conditions may be hostile or hospitable, politically charged or on the path to peace; they are never easy. After unrest in East Timor damaged or destroyed almost every medical facility, UNFPA worked with NGOs in 1999 to distribute equipment for clinics and supplies as basic as soap, plastic sheeting and a razor blade for cutting the umbilical cord of a newborn. In Honduras, local reproductive health facili- tators were trained to visit the temporary shelters and hastily.
