Building a strong partnership among midwives, mothers and partners in maternal and newborn health builds a healthy community and nation.
We join the rest of the world to celebrate midwives, not only in Nigeria but across the globe.
Ben is a 56-year-old father of seven. Since starting to work in Bungoma County, Kenya in 1988, he has assisted in the delivery of approx. 5,000 babies.
As the world commemorates the International Day of Women in Science, MamaYe Malawi meets women who have devoted their passion and time to maternal health.
The Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) Action Network asked experts about the importance of multi-disciplinary teams in MDSR systems. Here are the insights they shared with us.
Informed journalists are the best advocates for ensuring all groups in societies support safe deliveries in the hands of the midwives in Tanzania.
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation will receive $10million dollars loan from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to provide quality health care services for women and children.
QUIC is an accountability tool MamaYe uses to assess a health center on how ready it is to provide quality of care to patients for the past 24 hours.
Betsy McCallon argues that we now have an opportunity to break the silence and make progress on this long hidden issue.
BaSAM calls for more midwives and to implement the Drug Revolving Fund, and MamaYe youth activists are awarded for their contribution!
I got the idea to write this article at 4: am in the morning, I had to accompany my neighbor to a health centre because she was in labour.
Midwives are synonymous with life. It’s simple: investing in midwives is investing in life.
Finding solutions to the reported cases of newborn deaths as a result of unending fitful power supply
Meet Margaret, a midwife at the Nsuta Polyclinic in Ghana.
I was born premature. Read what I found out about my birth!
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, the MamaYe Advocacy Coalition partnered the Universal Access to Healthcare Campaign to present a 10-Action Point document to the leadership of the Ministry of Health.
A Deputy Director of the Family Health Division and head of the Reproductive and Child Health Department of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Aboagye, has urged skilled birth attendants across…
Midwives in government hospitals are our unsung heroes. Despite the challenges that they face, they try to do everything they can to ensure that lives are not lost. What is it that they do?
Today, we work as MamaYe directors to save mothers and babies’ lives by raising expectations of survival, working to ensure decision-makers have access to good evidence, and mobilising a grass-roots…
What if you had all the evidence, data and considered arguments you needed to make the strongest case to government, donors and decision makers to invest in midwifery services? What would the world…
A great majority of the 289,000 maternal deaths, estimated to have happened globally in 2013, could be avoided if we had the skills and the will to do so. Midwives can bring these skills, confirms…
A report released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund together with the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners reveals that…
New report reveals major gaps in midwives’ services in 73 high-burden countries
Sitting now in the main Congress Hall as the State of the World’s Midwifery 2014 is being launched at the International Confederation of Midwives’ Triennial Congress is pretty overwhelming. Firstly,…
Maternal mortality must be an index for development of all countries to help improve the health of women and young girls, Professor Fred T. Sai, one of Ghana’s foremost reproductive health experts…
Mary Issaka sees things from a local perspective - that’s how she ensures better access to skilled care and saves lives
When I gave birth, the most important person in the room, after my husband, was my midwife, Mary. Her midwifery skills gave me and my family the best start in life.
Midwifery skills save lives. Having those skills available when complications arise can be the difference between life and death. So it sometimes surprises me how little we know about those who care…
The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Ghana Health Services, has begun training males as midwives in selected midwifery training schools in the country this academic year.
Today, the story has changed. Years ago, there was a form of midwifery called Domiciliary Midwifery. This involves midwives who are attached to health posts, and who go from home to home, to…
Development and implementation of strategies to address gaps in the education and regulation of midwifery service is a major, required step to reaching the MDG 5. Find out how.
In early July, UNFPA and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) held a three-day workshop that aims to strengthen the profession in Sierra Leone.
Experts in maternal and newborn have calculated that if all Nigerian women had access to the services provided by midwives, then the lives of over 840,000 mothers and babies could be saved by 2015.
Sierra Leone needs midwives now more than ever. We know that with well trained and equipped midwives more than 1,500 mothers and 6,000 babies could be saved in Sierra Leone. That is why MamaYe is…
MamaYe Ghana is calling on the Minister for Health, to urgently address the shortfall in the number of midwives needed to help Ghanaian mothers deliver safely.
We need midwives now more than ever before. Today is a day to shine the light on and celebrate the honourable service provided by Tanzanian midwives to our communities, while also highlight the gaps…
Hlalapi Kunkeyani is a Principal Nursing Officer for Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at Kamuzu Central Hospital. She is also one of the two matrons. She started work as a registered nurse…
The ‘International Day of the Midwife’ is marked worldwide to first of all, renew the commitment of midwives around the world and to remind them of the importance of the service they render to…
African midwives belong to a truly noble profession. They use their skills, experience and dedication to preside over the gift to humanity of a new life.
Francess Forna makes an impression because she is clear about her vision. “We want to produce midwives who care, who have solid knowledge of the issues and the practical experience to support that…
Charity Salima is a nurse midwife who worked for government for 16 years before she founded her own clinic in 2008. Inspiration behind such a bold move was her service to community. Charity runs the…
No amount of sacrifice is too big.
Phoebe is a MamaYe Heroine. Posted to a rural community in Jigawa state she was faced with tough challenges. But, with courage and passion, Phoebe stepped up to the challenge. She gives her own blood…
