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- 1. The Power of a Smile: CARE India's Integrated Family Health Initiative
CARE under the Integrated Family Health Initiative (IFHI) is working in Bihar, India to improve Maternal and Newborn healthcare practices, including the quality of care. As part of the project, health system strengthening is being undertaken through participatory approaches by creating Quality Improvement Teams at the health facility level comprised of Doctors, Managers, Nurses and front line health workers. This blog shares the experience of Gayatri who gave birth at the Primary Health Centre in Naubatpur block, Patna, Bihar, that is supported by the initiative.
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- By CARE India
- 2. 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
- 3. Disrespect and Abuse of Women in Facility Childbirth Services: Deeply Political and Deeply Personal
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- By Kathleen Hill, M.D., Senior QI Advisor, USAID Health Care Improvement and TRAction Projects, University Research Co., LLC
- 4. Papua New Guinea (PNG): Birth attendants offer hope
The posting below from Blossum Gilmour, Mamayo Health Project Manager at CARE, describes CARE Papua New Guinea's training program for Village Birth Attendants (VBAs) in remote areas and their efforts to increase the number of women seeking maternity care at health centers.
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- By Blossum Gilmour, Mamayo Health Project Manager, CARE
- 5. ARTICLE IV: Every woman has the right to be treated with dignity and respect
This posting from Lorraine Fontaine, Coordinator at the Regroupement Naissance-Renaissance in Montréal, discusses the findings of a qualitative research project on women’s perspectives (both negative and positive) of maternity care and why we must be more vigilant than ever about defending the right of every woman to be treated with respect and dignity during childbirth.
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- By Lorraine Fontaine, Coordinator at the Regroupement Naissance-Renaissance in Montréal, Québec, Canada
- 6. My experience with maternity care as an HIV positive person
The posting below was submitted by Angela in Tanzania. She describes being stigmatized as an HIV positive patient during maternity care and the negative effect this experience has had on her view of childbirth in general. Her story is an excellent example of how women's experiences of childbirth stay with them for a lifetime and of the effect that disrespectful care can have on a woman's future maternity care choices.
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- By Angela
- 7. If women are not valued, they do not receive equitable care
Inequities in health care are often associated with lack of access (perhaps due to geography or poverty) or outright discrimination based upon ethnicity, religion, and perceived “otherness”. The bottom line is if women are not valued, they do not receive equitable care.
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- By Catherine Carr, Senior Maternal Health Advisor at USAID's Flagship MCHIP and Jhpiego
- 8. Recognizing and Tackling Disrespect and Abuse of Women in Childbirth
This posting is from Mary Ellen Stanton, Senior Maternal Health Advisor at USAID. She chronicles instances of disrespect and abuse during maternity care that she has witnessed over time, and discusses the challenges and opportunities for changing disrespectful and abusive behaviors in the maternity care system.
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- By Mary Ellen Stanton, CNM, Senior Maternal Health Advisor at USAID
- 9. Respectful Care Changes the World for the Better, One Birth at a Time
This posting from Soo Downe at the University of Central Lancashire describes her experiences as a witness to respectful maternity care in South Africa, her experience as a practicing midwife and what systems and steps are necessary to provide a respectful maternity care experience.
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- By Soo Downe
- 10. What does Respectful Care look like?
What does Respectful Maternity Care look like?
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- By Jhpiego
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