Vol. 16 No. 5, September 2003
Index
- ICM Board responds to the need for global and organisational change: Joyce Thompson, Director of the ICM Board of Management, writes of the Board's decisions taken at the July 2003 meeting--held in a different venue.
- Measuring the outcome of pregnancy in Europe: the ICM Research Standing Committee contributed crucial sessions to a meeting of the European Perinatal Epidemiology Network (EPEN) in Oxford, UK, on October 3, 2003.
- Improving access to information for nurses and midwives in developing countries: ICM, ICN and RCN co-hosted a meeting of the Health Information Forum of the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, held September 2003.
- HIV and infant feeding: UN agencies agree on a framework for priority action: one conclusion from ICASA, Nairobi: helping mothers who are HIV-positive 'to select and sustain the best feeding option' is a key role for midwives.
- 'Bringin' in da Spirit': a film history of African-American midwives: the story told in this film is of two intertwining pathways along which the African-American midwives are travelling--with goals yet to be reached.
- ICM Americas Conference.
- ICM Research Standing Committee (RSC).
- Midwifery in Canada.
- 'Global gag rule' contributes to more unintended pregnancies.
- Improving health through research.
- Midwife receives anniversary award from JHPIEGO/MNH.
- Pathways to equity in health.
- World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse.