Despite the provision of health services through Primary Health Centres, many still patronize Traditional Birth Attendants. (nigeriapoliticsonline.com)
Direct Relief's interventions include expanding access to safe deliveries by training and equipping traditional birth attendants and midwives, addressing complications in birth with emergency obstetric care, and enrolling mothers into the Prevention of Maternal - to - Child Transmission of HIV program. (directrelief.org)
The handheld, portable scale was designed to help midwives and traditional birth attendants identify newborns with low birth weights so the babies can get care quickly. (path.org)