Midwifery
- Afghanistan, Global development, Health, Life and style, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Midwifery, Nursing, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Taliban move to ban women training as nurses and midwives ‘an outrageous act of ignorance’
Afghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of health…
- Buddhism, Culture, Documentary films, Film, Health, Islam, Midwifery, Myanmar, Religion, Rohingya, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Midwives review – a Muslim and a Buddhist grapple with childbirth in strife-torn Myanmar
Sombre documentary shot over five years follows two healthcare workers as they deliver babies in a brutally di…
- Afghanistan, Childbirth, Health, Midwifery, Pregnancy, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘The Taliban killed a midwife who refused to leave a woman in labour’
Zahra Mirzaei pioneered ‘groundbreaking’ maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says sh…
- Afghanistan, Childbirth, Health, Midwifery, Pregnancy, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Gunmen killed a midwife who refused to leave a woman in labour’
Zahra Mirzaei pioneered ‘groundbreaking’ maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says sh…