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Article: Promoting the health of mothers and newborns during birth and the postnatal period; Nester T Moyo describes a successful Collaborative Safe Motherhood Pre-Congress Workshop, held in Brisbane, Australia, July 21-23, 2005.
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- International Midwifery
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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The death of a childbearing woman (and often her unborn or newborn child) is always disaster, an unnecessary and wasteful event which carries with it a huge burden of human grief and pain. Since 1987 ICM and its member associations have been addressing safe motherhood issues through international and regional workshops focussing on different aspects of the safe motherhood initiative.
This year's theme was 'Promoting the Health of Mothers and Newborns during Pregnancy, Birth and the Postnatal Period', a topic intended to bring senior midwives back to basics. Basic midwifery skills are the ones that make the midwife a skilled attendant--the best person to attend a ...