At E4A-MamaYe we have created a comic for International Women's Day 2014 to celebrate the heroic midwives, nurses and doctors (and their annoying buzzing fly friends!) who are hustling to help girls and women every day. We hope you enjoy 'Inzi and Lazizi, A Story about Respectful Care'.
At E4A-MamaYe we believe that all mothers and their babies deserve respectful care. We also think that midwives, nurses, doctors and other healthworkers are heroes and heroines whose hard work should be celebrated.E4A-MamaYe created this comic for International Women's Day 2014 to celebrate the heroic healthworkers (and their annoying buzzing fly friends!) who are hustling to help girls and women every day. We hope you enjoy 'Inzi and Lazizi, A Story about Respectful Care'. To download a large PDF version of the comic click here >Want to learn more? We have reports and evidence on the factors that contribute to disrespectful care, and the solutions can increase dignity and respect for both staff and patients, including:
- Respecful maternity care: country experiences, a survey of experiences about respectful maternity care across 19 countries
- Need to focus beyond the medical causes: a systematic review of the social factors affecting neonatal deaths
- Exploring evidence for disrespect and abuse in facility-based childbirth
- Bypassing primary care facilities for childbirth: a population based study in rural Tanzania
- Too far to walk: maternal mortality in context, which examines the three delay model of seeking, reaching and accessing adequate care.