January 2021 | Snap to it! Show your prowess as a photographer by focusing on midwives at work, in the community, at home. Also, meet a powerful advocate for close-to-home newborn intensive care in Uganda, and see how we connect the dots between savvy business management of a hospital and increased family planning opportunities in Indonesia.

Through a Midwifery Lens

Even in uncertain times, midwives stay steadfastly with women, providing essential services and delivering lifesaving care to them and their babies.

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Meet Dr. Akello

She advocated for newborn intensive care at Nebbi General Hospital. Since Jhpiego helped renovate its NICU, referrals are down and survival, way up.

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Spotlight: Indonesia

Business planning has benefited family planning at an Indonesian hospital as a result of Jhpiego-led initiatives to improve business management practices and delivery of care.

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Get Technical

One of the first demonstrations of how Helping Babies Breathe might function effectively at scale under relatively routine conditions appears in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

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Donate

Nurses, midwives and doctors on the pandemic’s frontlines appreciate your gifts, which keep them safe as they deliver essential services.

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Practice Makes Perfect

Being a midwife means being “with woman.” Becoming a midwife means learning and practicing professional skills in a laboratory outfitted with lifelike arms and other anatomical models. Students at Taunggyi Midwifery Training School in Shan state, Myanmar, watch as second-year student Ei Ei Thae demonstrates how to prepare and give an injection.

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Don’t Miss This

Register now for the #NotWithoutFP Forum. Featuring programmatic sessions, digital programming on ICFPLive!, a Virtual Exhibit Hall and plenary sessions focused on COVID-19’s impact on family planning, this free event is a springboard for the upcoming in-person ICFP.

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