Improving the resilience and workforce of health systems for women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health
Posted onWomen’s health priorities and interventions
Posted onSupplement: Towards a new global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health
Posted on“Once the government employs you, it forgets you”: Health workers’ and managers’ perspectives on factors influencing working conditions for provision of maternal health care services in a rural district of Tanzania
Posted onICM Americas Conference in Suriname: Invest in Healthy Pregnancy; Invest in Midwives
Posted onAs world leaders prepare to announce the new global development goals for 2030, it is critical to strengthen and support midwifery care as it is well-positioned to realize the global maternal health goals. In July, the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) held their 5th Regional Americas Conference in Suriname, “Invest in Healthy Pregnancy; Invest in Midwives,” which endorsed midwives taking the lead role as primary professionals responsible in promoting healthy pregnancies, and thereby ensuring healthy mothers and babies… read more
Training midwives to save expectant mothers in Chiapas
Posted onTaking a Walk in Her Shoes: How a Midwife Exchange Program Improved Maternal Health in Ethiopia
Posted onHospital leaders and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health recognized a complicated problem in obstetric care in Addis Ababa. Primary health centers saw few patients and referred many unnecessarily to overcrowded tertiary hospitals. To help fix the problem, they created a midwife exchange program… read more