When the farming community in Madya Pradesh, India produces acres of lush green crops ready for harvest, Nek Narayan Patel takes extra care to check on his pregnant clients who work the fields. As a patient care navigator who lives in the community, Patel knows that some expectant mothers may put their family’s welfare over
Kabul, Afghanistan – While visiting the Ahmad Shah Baba District Hospital in Kabul, Shafiqua Sadat met a Jhpiego-trained midwife who connected her to a service that would become beneficial for both her and her soon-to-be born baby girl. Shafiqua, 26 and visibly pregnant, had been keeping her sister-in-law company when midwife Rozina Sahak approached the
BALTIMORE, February 19, 2024 – Dr. Eva Lathrop, a reproductive health expert with more than two decades of experience as an obstetrician-gynecologist, educator and researcher, is the new Senior Director for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Jhpiego announced today. Dr. Lathrop will lead Jhpiego’s broad portfolio of work in reproductive health; family planning; maternal,
Every day 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Helena’s story shows us it doesn’t have to be this way.
