maternal and child health

Each morning, Milagrosa Matsinhe, a maternal and child health nurse at the Chokwé Military Health Center in southern Mozambique, reviews her work plan, including the list of clients she will visit that day. To reach her clients —military personnel and families residing within a 30-kilometer radius...

These skills can help nurses cope with stress, prevent burnout, and provide improved care.

They have the skills to lead multidisciplinary teams and improve health services for us all.

What does 2020 The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife mean for us? How will we be honored —and how will we honor the profession?

This midwife is giving babies born too soon a chance at life.

Even in hard-to-reach and vulnerable places, frontline health workers empower women with knowledge about breastfeeding and how to keep their babies healthy.

This International Day of the Midwife, learn from the Population Council on how they are working with midwives to reduce preventable deaths from Pre-Eclampsia.

For our World Health Worker Week blog series, we are featuring a number of posts that focus on different cadres of health workers, within health workforce teams. This great piece from IntraHealth International focuses on a midwife named Fatou in Senegal.

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is the hot topic in development circles, enticing health officials, governments, civil society, and other stakeholders with the promise of affordable, accessible health services to all—reducing poverty and improving wellbeing in the process. Preparations are underway...

Edna Adan is a name familiar to many of us who work to strengthen health workforces around the world. Enda’s a strong and dazzling force dedicated to ending preventable and maternal death in Somaliland and eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation. Taking time out of a busy schedule at the recent United Nations General Assembly in New York, Edna, a longstanding friend of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, answered some of our questions.