Midwifery education in Low-resource settings. Interested in how traditional birth attendants can be educated and integrated into overall maternity care
Thank you @DrZoeBradfield for your eloquent advocacy for maternal and newborn health services in Australia
Australia's national strategy on maternity care https://t.co/5ERJVWNi4d
Village or Traditional Birth Attendants, trained and linked to health professionals, are vital to improving maternal and newborn health outcomes in low-resource settings. #midwivessavelives#papuanewguinea#livingchildinc VBA committed https://t.co/QeEv9YfhrH
👏GOOD NEWS👏: The Government has announced $1.4 billion of additional aid to our region over the next 4-years.
We welcome this while continuing to call for further urgent aid to help fight famine in the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan, Yemen & Syria.
#HelpFightFamine#Budget2023
Thank you @bairdjulia The nurse practitioner, nursing and midwifery workforces are ready to do this - we have done vaccination training, have given hundreds of injections - know public health @anmf_federal @acn_tweet @MidwivesACM@acnp_national
https://t.co/FdLO53ifw6
"There's really no replacement for a midwife from you own community." - @cgdionfletch on growing Indigenous midwifery in Canada and around the world.
#ICMCongress2021
"I'm not only improving the lives of other Aboriginal women but I'm also improving my own chances of successfully having a normal birth the way that I choose." - Cherisse Buzzacott on her efforts to advocate for the culturally appropriate care she was denied during childbirth.
"This is not the budget announcement we were hoping for..."
Pacific Friends joins @glhamorg in expressing concern over a declining aid budget in the middle of a global pandemic.
Read full statement here: https://t.co/oQjeZ4Zo3X
#Budget2021
At a time when women desperately need their care, midwives are in acute shortage. In a new report, @UNFPA joins @world_midwives and @WHO to call for more investment in midwifery: https://t.co/IAwEbAnmd3
#SoWMy2021
Great to see more reports and research into culturally sensitive midwifery models of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and families. https://t.co/pSFAsYFAgl
The global midwife shortage is affecting almost every country and it has been worsened by the pandemic.
Governments must start "implementing policies & making investments that deliver better support & protection for midwives." @DrTedros
https://t.co/9KHM1hQihh
Great to see the shortage of midwives highlighted in this story - Global shortfall of nearly 1m midwives due to failure to value role, The Guardian @world_midwives @FrankaCadee #sowmy2021#idm2021 https://t.co/qWxlE5eNv6 via ^CarolineHomer