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The following typical anecdote served as the urgent impetus to develop a strategy to reduce premature infant mortality in Tanzania, a low resource country. Rounding in a newborn intensive care area where babies are not routinely monitored (see Picture 1), the care team came upon a 30 week premature infant...
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Midwife Nancy Tibejuba’s baptism of fire into midwifery came in early 2017, hardly two months after transiting from a small private clinic into a hospital setting, writes Kakaire Ayub Kirunda. But just a little over a month after being employed at St Francis Hospital Buluba in Mayuge District in Eastern...
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Alphonsine Mukandayisenga was full of excitement when she arrived to Nzige Health Center in Rwanda’s eastern district of Rwamagana. She had waited years for this day: the birth of her first baby. After five hours of normal labor — and with the help of midwife Georgette Dusingizuhoraho — she gave...
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I could hear the jingling bells on the midwife’s hand-made, traditional dress as I approached the top of the mountain in Nậm Giang 2 village in the mountains of Lao Cai, Vietnam. Gasping for breath from the hike, I was greeted by the smiling traditional midwife, Ms. Vàng Tả Mẩy,...
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It’s said that true leaders represent the interests of the people who have invested in them moreso than they do themselves: a conduit, if you will. When Karen Guilliland, President of the New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM), speaks of women and midwives in New Zealand – praising their sheer passion,...
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