{"id":22767,"date":"2024-08-22T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T11:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=22767"},"modified":"2024-08-22T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T11:46:24","slug":"afghanistan-urgently-needs-18000-more-midwives-to-address-critical-birth-attendance-shortage-unpfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/08\/afghanistan-urgently-needs-18000-more-midwives-to-address-critical-birth-attendance-shortage-unpfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan urgently needs 18,000 more midwives to address critical birth attendance shortage: UNPFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Afghanistan urgently requires an additional 18,000 midwives to meet the demand for skilled birth attendance, the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UNPFA mentioned that this lack of midwives, otherwise endangers lives and undermines women\u2019s and girls\u2019 bodily autonomy on a vast scale.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that midwives can address about 90 per cent of essential reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health needs, a severe global shortage of approximately 900,000 trained midwives poses a significant threat, UNFPA noted.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the crisis, UNFPA has significantly expanded its support for family health houses in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2021, UNFPA was supporting just over 70 family health houses in Afghanistan, a figure that \u2013 despite the extremely challenging operating environment \u2013 has swelled more than sixfold to 477 today. Since 2021, these clinics have helped more than 5 million Afghans access critical health services, especially in remote and hard-to-reach areas,&#8221; the UNFPA report added.<\/p>\n<p>the report further highlights that Afghanistan has long had one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world, with &#8220;one woman dying every hour due to pregnancy and childbirth complications&#8221; \u2013 deaths that could be largely preventable with adequate skilled midwifery care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public health workers were severely affected by the takeover, as hospitals and clinics were either forced to close or rendered non-functional and their staff could no longer make it to work safely,&#8221; according to UNFPA.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Afghanistan urgently requires an additional 18,000 midwives to meet the demand for skilled birth attendance, the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,218,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":78,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22772,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions\/22772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}