Vol. 16 No. 3, May 2003
Index
- WHO director general promises 'active outreach' to reduce health inequalities: Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Secretary General of the ICM, summarises the topics relating to midwifery debated at the World Health Assembly, May 2003.
- Meet the ICM treasurer! Franka Cadee spoke to Elizabeth Duff about life and work in the UK, in Africa, in the Netherlands and in midwifery--and why the ICM is 'wearing new shoes'.
- The International Day of the midwife and International Women's Day, 2003: reports this year come from Trinidad & Tobago, Lebanon and Tunisia, where midwives celebrated two important days with parades, publicity, conferences--and poetry.
- Afghanistan: more midwives are future hope for women's and children's health: Scottish midwife Sheena Currie is in Afghanistan as the co-ordinator of HealthNet International's auxiliary midwife training programme.
- Correction to report in last issue of IM.
- ICN conference moves to Geneva.
- Leave No Child Out campaign.
- Midwifery in NIS and CCEE.
- Parteria profesional y autorregulacion professional midwifery & self-regulation: report on an International Conference hosted by the CASA Professional Midwifery School, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico in June 2002.