Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

Building Business Brings Big Benefits

Three female health providers in Pakistan receiving training.

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.

Mentoring Makes the Difference

A midwife mentor uses a newborn-sized doll to demonstrate techniques to two nursing students.

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.