This young mother’s chance meeting with a champion midwife made all the difference. By Tajrian Chowdhury Sunita Rikiyasun, a mother of two, has lived her entire life in Bangladesh’s tea gardens. Married at 14, Sunita gave birth to her first baby at home two years later, assisted by a traditional birth attendant who had no formal
When Emma Vah, 40, visited the Careysburg clinic in Montserrado County, Liberia, for antenatal care, she received comprehensive quality services related to the prevention of malaria in pregnancy (MIP). Malaria is endemic in her country, with transmission occurring year-round, and pregnant women like her are at great risk of severe disease and death. Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) is recommended to prevent the adverse outcomes of malaria for mothers and their unborn children. However, uptake of this intervention has
Pawana Meet Pawana, 38, a kader, or community health worker, in Sadeng village, in Indonesia’s Bogor district, which is south of Jakarta on the island of Java. She became a kader at 13 and, ever since, has dedicated her life to the health and wellbeing of the women, children and families of her village.
