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Africa: Midwives – the Workforce That Will Determine Maternal and Newborn Survival and Africa’s Future

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago016 mins

New York / Addis Ababa — Tonight, thousands of women across Africa will give birth. Whether they survive to see daylight will largely depend on where they live, how quickly they reach care, and whether the health system around them is ready to respond. Maternal deaths in Africa have dropped 40 percent since 2000, but…

Africa

Africa: Make Midwives Universally Accessible and Save Millions of Lives, Who Urges

eriinfo.com1 year ago06 mins

Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded in 2023. What if there was a clear path to saving 83 percent of these people? To saving 3.7 million mothers, unborn children and babies annually? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this sort of large-scale life-saving is possible, if midwifery care is universally…