It is almost ironic that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had designated 2020 as the “International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife,” in honor of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth as the world gained an unprecedented respect for its...
Sarah Bar-Zeev and Petra ten Hoope-Bender of UNFPA discuss how midwives play a crucial role in ensuring a positive pregnancy experience for all women while the pandemic continues Nobody told the 140 million babies that will be born this year that there’s a global...
Every woman should have access to safe and appropriate antenatal care. While there may be obvious barriers to this in resource-poor countries, the high maternal mortality rate in the US, one of the richest nations in the world, continues to grow. It more than doubled...
Dr Flavia Bustreo was appointed Assistant Director-General for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health in 2010. Danielle Barron interviewed her in the lead-up to Safe Motherhood Week 2018 DB: Can you tell me what improvements you have seen in the area of maternal...
Petra De Sutter is a gynaecologist, and professor in reproductive medicine at Ghent University (Belgium) and also a politician. She is member of the Belgian Senate and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where she is active in the committee of...
Having a disease shouldn’t mean you can’t have a child. And being pregnant shouldn’t prevent you from getting treatment. However, there is still a big knowledge gap on pregnancy and medicine. Where information exists, it is fragmented, difficult to find as well...
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