A Nigerian father gets the message about maternal and newborn health. Several months ago, Israel Nwafor’s mobile phone buzzed with a message alerting him that “labor could start anytime now.” He read it in full, sharing aloud what he was learning about the signs of labor—some subtle, some not—with his wife, Monica, who, at the
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.
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.
