Ethiopia is building a new generation of midwives through a novel training approach that focuses on delivering competent, confident and respectful care to mothers and newborns.
Ethiopian Midwives Learn Respectful, Competent Care
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Ethiopia is building a new generation of midwives through a novel training approach that focuses on delivering competent, confident and respectful care to mothers and newborns.
Pakistani midwife Alia Jogi only delivered a handful of mothers every month at her community clinic. Then she received business skills training, and the number of patients skyrocketed.
The government of Rwanda has made a priority of expanding access to quality reproductive health services by increasing the competency and confidence of nurses and midwives—those providers who deliver the bulk of health care here to pregnant women, mothers and children.