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There are 24 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Respectful Maternity Care".
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- 1. Malawi Celebrates International Day of the Midwife
Midwifery is an exciting career which needs good managers, professionals who are all-rounders, bold, innovative, and also proactive in the interests of women and their families, capable of being advocates for their clients while also supportive to their peers and more junior team members.
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- By Lennie Kamwendo
- 2. Respectful Maternity Care endorsed at the International Day of the Midwife in Rwanda
Excerpt: Rwandan midwives showed their bravery and commitment to improvements in care by providing supportive anecdotal and observed statements for each of the seven categories of disrespect and abuse in maternity care highlighted by the RMC campaign.
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- By Pandora Hardtman
- 3. A Happy Midwife for Healthier Mothers
Critical shortage in midwives, poor working conditions, uneven distribution between urban and rural areas, and negative perception of the midwifery profession, are some of the challenges that hinder midwives ability to provide quality care in Malawi.
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- By Kiko Mapunda, White Ribbon Alliance Malawi
- 4. Celebrating mothers
The importance of a woman as a mother in every family and society is invaluable. Today, as you read this, I invite you to celebrate your mother and think about her life from the time you were in her womb. I also request all readers, both women and men, to become advocates for safer and more respectful motherhood in Nepal and around the world.
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- 5. Addressing Disrespect and Abuse During Childbirth
Mande Limbu joined four other maternal health experts in a discussion of the challenges impeding quality care and the steps being taken to address disrespect and abuse during childbirth at the Wilson Center on May 2, 2013.
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- 6. Respectful Maternity Care: Voices of Rwandese Midwives
It is crucial for midwives to understand women’s right to respectful maternity care and why it is so important for women’s rights to be respected during birth. Disrespect and abuse during childbirth cannot be eliminated without the engagement of midwives.
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- 7. New UN Technical Guidance Affirms Women’s Right to Respectful Health Care
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has released technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programs for the reduction of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. The recently launched report provides guidance on implementing policies and programs to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in accordance with human rights standards and aims to assist policymakers in improving women’s health and rights.
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- By Mande Limbu, White Ribbon Alliance
- 8. Midwives urged on safe childbirth
White Ribbon Alliance Tanzania National Coordinator Rose Mlay urges midwives to deliver respectful maternity care and avoid disrespectful and abusive practices
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- 9. Nurses Counselled on Ethics
White Ribbon Alliance Tanzania takes steps to improve nurse and midwifery training and respectful maternity care.
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- 10. The Heshima Project: Understanding Disrespectful and Abusive Maternity Care and the Means for Improvement
The below post from Charlotte Warren, Associate at the Population Council's Reproductive Health Services and Research Program, describes a research project in Kenya which aims to understand the extent of disrespectful and abusive care to women during maternity care and the best methods to improve this care.
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- By Charlotte Warren, Associate, Population Council
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