Several weeks ago, Syrian refugee Huda Alsayil couldn’t feel her baby kicking in her womb. Five months pregnant at the time, she panicked. As one of the thousands of Syria’s 3.8 million refugees living in informal Jordanian tent settlements, Ms. Alsayil can't afford medical care at a clinic and has limited access to basic necessities.

“According to what I have seen and what I have been told by these women, it’s so difficult to be a refugee--but way more difficult to be a woman, and worse yet to be a pregnant refugee,” said...