International Midwifery articles from May 2003

International Midwifery archives from May 2003

WHO director general promises 'active outreach' to reduce health inequalities: Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Secretary General of the ICM, summarises the topics relating to midwifery debated at the World Health Assembly, May 2003.(World Health Organization)
May 1, 2003... The worldwide problem of shortages of midwives directly impacts on the wellbeing of women and babies during pregnancy and childbirth, and therefore is of over-riding concern not only to midwifery organisations but to all those involved with...

Meet the ICM treasurer! Franka Cadee spoke to Elizabeth Duff about life and work in the UK, in Africa, in the Netherlands and in midwifery--and why the ICM is 'wearing new shoes'.(Interview)
May 1, 2003... Q: How did all this start--did you always want to be a midwife, or did it creep up and surprise you? FC: My original ambition was to be an anthropologist. I got as far as the last year of my anthropology studies at the London School of...

The International Day of the midwife and International Women's Day, 2003: reports this year come from Trinidad & Tobago, Lebanon and Tunisia, where midwives celebrated two important days with parades, publicity, conferences--and poetry.
May 1, 2003... Midwives in Trinidad and Tobago celebrate International Women's Day: Carmen Machado of TTAM reports on the 2003 activities This year the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Midwives (TTAM), in collaboration with other non-governmental...

Afghanistan: more midwives are future hope for women's and children's health: Scottish midwife Sheena Currie is in Afghanistan as the co-ordinator of HealthNet International's auxiliary midwife training programme.
May 1, 2003... After seeing an advertisement on the ICM website, I successfully applied for the post of Training Co-ordinator for the Auxiliary Midwife Training programme (AMT) in Afghanistan. This project was earlier reported in International Midwifery by...

Leave No Child Out campaign. (News from ICM, members and partners).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The 'Leave No Child Out' (LNCO) campaign has been launched by the NGO/UNICEF Regional Network for Children (RNC) in Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic states. The campaign will underscore the...

Midwifery in NIS and CCEE. (News from ICM, members and partners.
May 1, 2003... The need for more information about maternal and infant health services in the newly independent states and countries of central and eastern Europe was highlighted by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in 2001. The response was a research...

ICN conference moves to Geneva. (News from ICM, members and partners).(International Council of Nurses)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The International Council of Nurses' Conference is to take place in a different venue following the recent tragic bombings in Morocco. Explicit concerns expressed by government, individuals, member associations, sponsors and exhibitors have led...

Correction to report in last issue of IM. (News from ICM, members and partners).(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2003... A number of details were incorrectly reported in the item about nursing and midwifery research in International Midwifery, March/April 2003, p20. The correct title of the document described is: 'Nursing and midwifery research: summary...

Parteria profesional y autorregulacion professional midwifery & self-regulation: report on an International Conference hosted by the CASA Professional Midwifery School, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico in June 2002.
May 1, 2003... Executive summary Over decades now, data produced from prospective and other studies has pointed up that midwives provide safe, low intervention and economical care in multiple settings. In 1997, the Safe Motherhood Inter-Agency Group...