International Midwifery (IM)
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 - VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1
The journal of the International Confederation of Midwives
In the current issue of IM you'll find:
Petra ten Hoope-Bender, ICM Secretary General, deplores the imminent threat of war: as well as the direct risk of injury or death to civilian populations, there is a huge long-term impact on the wellbeing of families, and projects such as the ICM's for women and Safe Motherhood are set back through lack of funding
A major conference in October last year, organised by the White Ribbon Alliance in New Delhi, brought together many agencies working for Safe Motherhood who recognised the unique contribution of midwives to this objective. ICM's Judi Brown presnted a paper 'Midwives of the world: making it happen together'
A vivid description of life for childbearing women in Palestinian communities under military occupation. Here midwives are returning to traditional skills of attending home and community-based births, as women in labour cannot get to hospital during curfews. Midwife Mary McNabb analyses the need for evidence-based action.
The cosmopolitan surroundings of Hong Kong made the setting for a regional conference on nursing and midwifery regulation involving participants from western Pacific and south-east Asia. ICM Deputy Director Judi Brown ran a workshop and continued to boost the specifically midwifery components of regulation development
Reproduced in full is a joint statement from midwives, nurses, doctors, dentists and physiotherapists entitled 'Civilians Pay in War'. The world confederations of all these health professionals have spoken as one voice in calling for non-violent resolution of conflict
In the news in IM: read about action for the protection of midwifery from ICM members in the USA and Czech Republic - access WHO's Safe Motherhood newsletter on-line - sign up for conferences in Budapest and Oslo - update on recent work from WHO and the UN
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Contributions of short articles, reports and news items to International
Midwifery are invited, especially those with an international aspect,
such as descriptions of midwives' visits to another country or meetings
with participants from several countries.
We especially welcome those written in French or Spanish, which will
be printed in this language with an English translation.
Contact ICM HQ info@internationalmidwives.org,
or Elizabeth Duff, the editor, at elizabeth@intlmidwives.fsnet.co.uk
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lo que están haciendo!!!
Los invitamos a contribuir artículos cortos, reportajes, y
notícias a nuestra revista internacional de matronas, sobretodo
lo que sea pertinente al arena internacional como, por ejemplo, relatos
de las visitas y experiéncias de matronas en otros paises o
de encuentros internacionales.
Recibimos con mucho gusto artículos escritos en frances o en
español. Estos artículos seran publicados en su idioma
original con traducción en inglés.
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