Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) in central India are crucial to the vaccination system, providing essential health services despite challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted their importance in achieving high vaccination rates. From Gavi and VaccinesWork.
After more than a quarter century, Samanthi Priyangika Dias still finds her work “fascinating”. She also wishes the contributions of public health midwives were better valued.
In the Philippines, USAID-trained Indigenous community health workers like Flora are transforming lives by providing culturally-sensitive family planning services and strengthening primary health care systems in underserved areas.
As rising heat and disasters affect pregnancy and birth outcomes, midwives are working to ensure a safer, more sustainable future.
Sara David, founder of Living Child Inc., has been training health workers in Papua New Guinea for over a decade, empowering communities and saving the lives of mothers and newborns.