Jannah Soorjo was forced to give birth in a sprawling Muslim graveyard in southern Pakistan filled with hundreds of thousands of flood victims, a reminder of the pain and despair gripping the country even as the floodwaters begin to flow out to sea.

The feverish 26-year-old mother is one of 500,000 women affected by the floods whom the UN expects will give birth in the next six months. Many of their children will enter a world where food and water are scarce and the risk of deadly disease is high.