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
Primary Health Care
A New Beginning
As a youngster in Kenya, Mary Wambua was different. Children stayed away from her. “When my friends were going to school and playing together—I was on my own. They said I smelled and didn’t want to get close to me,” says Mary Wambua, 48. Mary had a fistula—an abnormal passage between the bladder and vagina
A climate-centric approach for healthy moms and babies
BALTIMORE, November 3, 2023 – A global health organization with more than 50 years of experience supporting high-quality health care in all corners of the world, Jhpiego has always strived to ensure that where a woman lives should not determine if she lives. But the dramatic and ongoing change of our planet’s climate is affecting