Archives for Global Midwifery
Lancet Series on the Importance of Midwifery in the Lives of Women and Infants
The Lancet, a highly-respected medical journal published in the , has recently released a series of articles on midwifery and its actual and potential impact on the lives and health…
Misoprostol – Saving Mothers’ Lives with a Simple Intervention
Rangkhani, a village in Baglung District, Nepal I am writing this from Nepal, where I have spent 4-8 weeks every spring for the past four years working with One Heart…
Follow-up on FGM article – Ban Ki-moon, UN Sec’y-General, supports campaign
The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, praised the 'courageous' campaign after meeting 17-year-old activist Fahma Mohamed. According to an article in today's Guardian, the UN secretary general…
Why Are Some Innovative Ideas in Maternity Care Embraced While Others Are Ignored?
In a New Yorker article (July 2013) titled Slow Ideas, the surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande asks why some innovative ideas in medicine are adopted so quickly, while others are…
French Midwives: “The Medical Value of our Profession Has Never Been Recognized”
A front-page story by Phillippe Euzen in LeMonde on December 16 follows the saga of French midwives as they demand a change in the way their profession is defined in…
Millions Still Die Due to Lack of Midwives: U.N.
Nepalese men carrying woman in obstructed labor to hospital More investment in midwifery could save many of the millions of babies and hundreds of thousands of women who still die…
Respectful Maternity Care
The White Ribbon Alliance has an excellent short video on YouTube about respectful maternity care. (more…)
The State of World’s Midwifery Report
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says in the foreword of this important document, "We know what is needed to make pregnancy and delivery safe: access to health…
International Midwifery Organizations
The world is a big place, and midwifery is a part of the dominant culture in much of the world, more so than in the United States. I would like…