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Education and regulation of midwives to ensure high-quality care
High-quality midwifery education is essential to prepare midwives to provide high-quality SRMNAH care (50). Despite evidence of the benefits produced by investment in it midwifery education and training remain grossly underfunded in many countries. There are wide variations in the content quality and duration of education programmes and key challenges relating to resources and infrastructure which adversely affect students’ learning experience and limit opportunities for gaining “hands-on” experience (51-56). Research across Africa and South Asia has shown that inadequate education and training significantly jeopardize the professional identity competence and confidence of midwives as primary SRMNAH care providers (57). However there are indications that positive efforts to improve the quality of midwifery education are under way in a number of countries (58) including India (Box 3.1).
Preface
The 2017 edition of World Population Policies a report published biennially since 2001 provides an overview of the laws and policies relating to induced abortion. It includes consideration of the various legal grounds for abortion and selected requirements for induced abortion including gestational limits the number of personnel required to authorize an abortion mandatory third-party consent and compulsory counselling and waiting periods.
Foreword
This year’s Arab Human Development Report marks the fourth in a four-part series that has made a significant contribution to the debate on the development challenges facing the Arab world.
Foreword
For the first time the global community knows the cost and the new investments that must be made to achieve three world-changing transformative results: (a) ending preventable maternal deaths; (b) ending the unmet need for family planning; and (c) ending gender-based violence and harmful practices.