International Midwifery articles from March 2008

International Midwifery archives from March 2008

Welcome to Glasgow, Scotland!
March 1, 2008... I feel proud, privileged and delighted to have the role of welcoming midwives to the Intemational Confederation of Midwives' 28th Triennial Congress--both through the pages of this journal and later, in person, in the prestigious setting of the...

ICM launches new website.(News from ICM and partners)(Website overview)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A new, totally restructured and user-friendly website is now accessible to members, partners, guests and visitors, and is due to be launched formally on 5 May, the International Day of the Midwife. The site will...

UNFPA supports midwives & the International Day of the Midwife.(News from ICM and partners)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA Executive Director, sent a message in advance of the International Day of the Midwife: 'Every day, midwives are saving women's lives by making delivery safe. Their essential care before, during and after delivery...

ICM Educational Standing Committee meeting.(News from ICM and partners)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ICM Board member Andrea Stiefel, with colleagues Marianne Nieuwenhuijze and Ans Luyben, is organising a meeting for all interested midwives during the Glasgow Congress with the aim of reactivating the ICM Education...

Announcement from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), UK.(News from ICM and partners)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was announced by the RCM in February that Dame Karlene Davis, who became general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives in 1997 and was the first black woman to lead a British trade union, will step down from...

Malawi midwives in the news.(News from ICM and partners)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The Association of Malawi Midwives (AMM) has voiced concern that female parliamentarians fail to articulate issues that affect women. Lennie Kamwendo, president of AMM, registered concern that Malawi is losing many women during or after...

'The education of midwives in Europe: reconciling the standards': the European Midwives Association and German Midwives Association/Bund Deutscher Hebammen held a conference in Berlin, Germany, December 2007.(Conference notes)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More than 130 participants from 26 countries attended the 2nd European Midwives Association (EMA) Education conference, which took place in Berlin, Germany, 7-8 December 2007. The majority of participants came from...

Midwifery in Iceland: time to celebrate.
March 1, 2008... This year 2008 and the next 2009, Icelandic midwifery has a reason to celebrate some of its defining moments: the 10 years since graduation of the first group of midwives from the University of Iceland and the 90-year anniversary of the...

'Action to resolve the accelerating crisis in the global health workforce': the GHWA Forum: Nester T Moyo, ICM Senior Midwifery Adviser, attended the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, in Kampala, Uganda, 2-7 March 2008.
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The first ever Global Forum on Human Resources for Health was organised by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) in Kampala, Uganda. The GHWA is a partnership dedicated to identifying and implementing solutions...

ICM assists at a 'rebirth': the Midwives Association of Sierra Leone: Nester T Moyo, ICM Senior Midwifery Adviser, describes the step-by-step process of bringing a midwifery association back to life after the damage of a civil war.(International Confederation of Midwives)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The mission to Sierra Leone was carried out in a collaboration between the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and Cordaid--an international development organisation with a network of partners in 36...

'Gone with the Wind'--interpreting media representations of normal childbirth.
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr Holly Powell-Kennedy, co-chair of the ICM Research Sanding Committee, gave a fascinating talk to an audience at King's College London, on 3 March 2008. Holly used images from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind to...

'The business of being born'.
March 1, 2008... A ground-breaking film about childbirth is being screened over the next few weeks in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, with more international dates being planned. The film is the work of American actress Ricki Lake and director Abby...

Canada: 'closer to the goal of regulated midwifery across the country': Canadian midwives Kerstin Martin and Rosalind Lydiate provide an update on midwifery regulation in the provinces of Canada.
March 1, 2008... Kerstin Martin, RM, MA, President, Canadian Association of Midwives/Association Canadienne des sages-femmes, reported to ICM: In the majority of Canadian provinces and territories today, the regulation and integration of midwives in the...

Countdown to 2015 conference will call for end to 10 million maternal and child deaths each year.(Worldwide news)(Conference news)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Countdown to 2015 Maternal Newborn & Child Survival A three-day conference on tracking global progress to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, in April 2008.. Ministers, Parliamentarians...

International Women's Day.(Worldwide news)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On 8 March, International Women's Day, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) issued a message stating, 'It is good to invest in women and girls, and it pays to do so'. UNFPA continued its call with the...

WHO and the health workforce.(Worldwide news)(Survey)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun issuing a series called Spotlight on statistics--A fact file on health workforce statistics. The second publication, in February 2008, was titled Gender and health workforce statistics, and it...

New WHO Collaborating Center at University of Chile Midwifery School.(Worldwide news)
March 1, 2008... In January 2008 the Midwifery School from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile was nominated as a WHO Collaborating Center, its mission to collaborate in the fields of: * Midwifery education * Updating midwifery training...

Launch of a new journal of midwifery for Africa.(Worldwide news)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The African Journal of Midwifery (AJM) is a new quarterly peer-reviewed, evidence-based, journal for midwives and nurses, who want to keep up to date with developments in Africa, in matters relating to midwifery and...

A simple, reusable device for safe motherhood.(Worldwide news)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr Suellen Miller, Director of Safe Motherhood Programs at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health ar the University of California, San Francisco, wrote about her work in developing an anti-shock garment to...

White Ribbon Alliance and 'Stories of Mothers Lost'.(Worldwide news)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following the success of its striking collection of hand-crafted fabric panels, which represent the stories of individual women who have died in childbirth, the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood has brought...