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Awards
2002 Awardees Resumé
Colombia award winners
Save the Children Award Winners
And more....
CMBC's Prior Learning and Experience Assessment (PLEA)
Alternatives
to War
This evidence-based report analyses from a public health perspective the
health and environmental impact of the previous, ongoing and any future
conflict with Iraq,
It shows that waging war on Iraq would have enormous humanitarian
costs, including disaster for the Iraqi population in both the short and
long term, and would create enormous harm further afield to combatants
and civilians alike. It concludes by summarising alternatives to war.
PRESS
RELEASE: ICM AIMS
Working for midwives worldwide: The International Confederation of Midwives
(ICM) & its 26th Triennial Congress.
PRESS
RELEASE: 2008 Congres Site
Delegates to ICM Council select the site for the 2008 Congress and appoint
new representatives.
PRESS
RELEASE: Baca Keynote
The teaching of midwifery skills must respond to reality.
PRESS
RELEASE: Debt Cancellation
Midwives at ICM Council deplore the effect of debt payments on maternal
and child health in developing countries and call for debt cancellation.
PRESS
RELEASE: Etical Recruitment
ICM Council speaks out on ethical recruitment of midwives between
countries
PRESS
RELEASE: Exclusive Breastfeeding and HIV
Midwives will support mothers with HIV infection in exclusive breastfeeding
of their babies where that is the woman's choice
PRESS
RELEASE: ICM History
A short history of the ICM!
PRESS
RELEASE: Lynch Keynote
Share and nourish together
PRESS
RELEASE: Members Fees
ICM Council commits to more flexible membership fees and financial
assistance for midwives´ associations in developing countries
PRESS
RELEASE: Midwives Woman & Human Rights
Delegates at ICM Council overwhelmingly support positive action on
'Midwives, Women and Human Rights'
PRESS
RELEASE: Moyo Keynote
Midwives and women ´sailing the high seas of information´
PRESS
RELEASE: Prakasamma Keynote
India: one billion people - where are the midwives?
PRESS
RELEASE: Promotion Vaginal Birth
Midwives at ICM Council support promotion of vaginal birth rather
than Caesarean section (CS)
PRESS
RELEASE: Schücking Keynote
Take normal birth off the list of endangered species!
PRESS
RELEASE: Awards
Awards for midwives announced at the ICM Triennial Congress.
PRESS
RELEASE: Sponsor a Midwife Collection
Sponsor-a-Midwife Fund benefits from midwives´generosity
Marie Goubran Memorial Fund
TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE AWARD.
Purpose: To assist in the furthering of midwifery
education and practice in countries with special needs and limited funding
opportunities, through the provision of grants, scholarships and awards
to midwives who have demonstrated the potential to act as change agents
in their region or country.
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Save the Children Award for Midwives
TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE AWARD.
Purpose: To bestow an award to midwives who
have demonstrated their achievement to act as change agents in improving
newborn health at the community level through training and/or provision
of services in Sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. Click
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Columbia University Award for Midwives
and their Associations
TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE AWARD.
Purpose: To bestow an award to
midwives who have demonstrated the potential to act as change agents in
their country in the reduction of maternal and neonatal death and disability
and have the ability to support the strengthening of the midwifery association.
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2002 Awardees Resumé
CECILIA ANNA ASARE - GHANA.
Practised as a midwife in various hospitals.
Took the Life Saving Skills (LSS) course in 1990 and has been a national
LSS trainer since.
Dedicated to the profession and is interested in sharing news and opportunities
with her colleagues.
Has been trained in post-abortion family planning and counselling skills
and trains other midwives in the same so that there may be a reduction
in the number of abortions.
Is piloting a project which is aimed at mass education on
sexuality, reproductive health and women's rights in the new Juaben municipality.
Will use the money to improve the performance of midwives
in the four health centres of the Central Region, by training them in
LSS and by training the general health personnel in infection prevention
measures.
MARIE JANNEH - THE GAMBIA
Has 20 years of experience as a midwife and has in that time saved
the lives of many women and children. Took on the role of an unpaid clinical
trainer for midwifery.
Joined the school of nursing and midwifery as a tutor in 1994 and also
functions as a mentor for students. Became head of Midwifery Studies at
the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Gambia college in 2000.
Has also made major contributions to the Gambia Midwives'
Associations.
Will use the money to run refresher courses for practising
midwives in order to enhance their skills in quality midwifery care. Has
developed a project that includes a needs assessment, refresher trainings
and monitoring and evaluation of the results.
COLUMBIA AWARD WINNERS
Martha Bokosi - Malawi
Has been a midwife for over 20 years, has a master's degree in reproductive
health and is the programme manager for the Safe Motherhood programme
in the southern region of Malawi.
She is being awarded for her creating of awareness of the danger signs
of pregnancy amongst child-bearing families. The programme she manages
provides midwives with life saving skills and is conducive to the environmental
requirements of the skilled attendant at birth.
Martha has potential to develop a meaningful strategic plan for the association
and is in the right position to be able to exert influence
With her award, she proposes to publicise the existence
and activities of the Association of Midwives of Malawi, assist the district
health institutions and communities to meet the mandates of the Safe Motherhood
programme and liaise with non-governmental organisations to share experiences
and resources.
Phan Thi Hanh - Vietnam
Is a midwife and the founder of the Vietnamese Association of Midwives
With her award, she proposs to build a partnership across
the country to foster continuing professional and personal development
of midwives and to work together as a team.
She wishes to expand the activities of the association to the whole country
and will encourage all midwives ito join. All members must have the commitment
to serve the Safe Motherhood Initiative and the National Reproductive
Health Strategy.
The expected outcome of her project is that all the women, especially
those in the remote areas,
will receive midwifery care from a midwife before, during and after birth
which will hopefully
reduce the maternal mortality in the country by half by 2004.
Venus Mark - Trinidad & Tobago
She became a midwife in 1959 and is a founding member of the Trinidad
& Tobago Association
of Midwives. She has initiated a television programme educating mothers
about their choices
and the role of the midwife. She sits on many national committees that
deal with midwifery and
women's health.
With her award, she proposes to provide workshops and lectures
to the Trinidad & Tobago midwives to increase their skills, she will
liaise with sister organisations to stimulate and help motivate the young
midwife poplation to develop leadershiip skills and wil further develop
the monitoring of student midwives, especially as they conduct homebirths.
SAVE THE CHILDREN AWARD WINNERS
Rosemary Nyirenda - Malawi
Has 20 years experience as a midwife and is currently working in a
neonatal unit. Has made outstanding contributions to neonatal care, for
example by establising kangaroo care in her unit and by actively supervising
mothers in the community with pre term babies.
The major reason for the success in the community is the
involvement of family members. To date the survival of over 80 newborn
babies has been attributed to the kangaroo care.
She has also implemented infection prevention protocols.
Bessie Virginia Mutemeri - Zimbabwe
Became a midwife in 1968 and has extensive experience on both the
labour ward and the neonatal unit where she is in charge of pre-term babies
of 1000 grams and over, babies with birth asfyxia after difficult deliveries,
jaundiced babies needing phototherapy or exchange transfusion and babies
with congenital malformations.
She established the kangaroo care method in 1994 and
has introduced the cup and spoon method instead of the bottle to feed
those babies who cannot breastfeed. To reduce the risk of infection, she
has promoted early discharge of pre-terms, ensures that the laundry for
neonates is odne separately from that of adults, has introduced ‚topping
and tailing' instead of a full bath and maintains a warm and clean environment
in her unit.
Request for names of Special Interest Midwives
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CMBC’s PRIOR LEARNING AND
EXPERIENCE ASSESSMENT (PLEA)
PLEA is a process designed to assess midwives educated
outside of Canada and who wish to practice midwifery in British Columbia.
Anyone who has not completed their midwifery education at a CMBC approved
educational program and who is not registered as a midwife in another
Canadian jurisdiction, must take part in the PLEA process in order to
be registered in British Columbia. Read
more....
Click here for the poster....
Click here
for the Order Form PLEA Applicant Handbook....
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