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The world is currently being plaque by a shortage of midwives. According to a new United Nations report, the shortage is around 900,000.
The rampaging COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the situation with many midwives being redeployed to help plug vital gaps in other health services.
The 2021 State of the World’s Midwifery report by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), World Health Organisation (WHO), and the International Confederation of Midwives, said that fully resourcing midwife-delivered care by 2035 will avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year.
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The world is facing a shortage of 900,000 midwives, with more than half the shortfall in Africa, where nearly two-thirds of maternal deaths occur, according to a new survey.
Insufficient resources and a failure to recognise the importance of the role mean there has been little progress since the last study in 2014, according to the State of the World’s Midwifery report, which looked at 194 countries.
There are an estimated 1.9 million midwives and associate midwives working globally, 90% of them women. The report, published by the World Health Organization, the International Confederation of Midwives and the UN population fund (UNFPA) on Wednesday, said little progress had been made to improve midwifery care in the past seven years and the Covid pandemic had exacerbated the shortage with midwives deployed to support other health services.
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New report sounds the alarm on global shortage of 900,000 midwives
Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year.
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 5 May 2021 Millions of lives of women and newborns are lost, and millions more experience ill health or injury, because the needs of pregnant women and skills of midwives are not recognized or prioritized.
The world is currently facing a shortage of 900,000 midwives, which represents a third of the required global midwifery workforce. The COVID-19 crisis has only exacerbated these problems, with the health needs of women and newborns being overshadowed, midwifery services being disrupted and midwives being deployed to other health services.
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