02 December 2015 02 Dec 2015

Community midwives' workplace experiences: A case study from a resource-poor country

In 2004, a joint statement issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) identified skilled birth attendants (SBAs), such as midwives, as an effective intervention for achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4—to reduce the neonatal mortality rate (NMR)—and MDG 5, to reduce the maternal mortality rate (MMR)