The most recently available data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey estimates that 362 maternal deaths occur per 100,000 live births. These deaths can be partly attributable to a shortage of professional midwives, denying women access to high-quality delivery care and emergency services. Investing in midwives is one of the most cost-effective strategies to achieving universal sexual and reproductive health coverage and realisation of reproductive rights for women. Midwives’ work is not limited to delivering babies. Midwives are central to the work of UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.

Source: Standard Digital May 05, 2021 03:56 UTC