Midwifery

At the intersection of midwifery and gender-based violence

Guatemala’s Indigenous Midwives Screen for Cervical Cancer

Notes from the Field: Guatemala Edition

Karen Nassi, Every Mother Counts Program Director

Trainings for Nurses Will Save Lives Across Haiti

Partners in Health shares a story from Haiti on how training nurses will save lives.

Every mother, no matter where she lives, no matter where she’s from, deserves a safe pregnancy and childbirth. Trained nurses can…

An American Midwife In Uganda

Nicole Marie White is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and activist who spent some time recently teaching and delivering babies in Uganda.

For more than a decade, Nicole has caught babies in a variety of settings, in various cities, and in…

The State of the World’s Midwives 2014

Meeting the challenges of maternal health through midwives.
The world is facing huge challenges that Every Mother Counts and many global leaders think midwives can tackle — addressing the unmet reproductive and maternal healthcare needs of millions of girls and…

A Letter From Andrise

Every Mother Counts talks with Andrise, one of Midwives for Haiti’s recent graduate midwives.

Hinche, Haiti

EMC caught up with Andrise, one of Midwives for Haiti’s recent graduate midwives to find out how life as…