Lois Marie Foundation

06/08/2026

Midwives, this is a fantastic opportunity for a free online class on reproductive health in a changing climate. Please check out the class information below and register!
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/programs/global-consortium-climate-health-education/courses-trainings/reproductive-maternal-newborn-health-rmnh-changing-climate

04/14/2026

Try cooking a meal without water. Now imagine delivering a baby without water. Something that our colleagues must manage every day.

This report exposes the scale of unsafe maternity care in Africa and Asia and shows how water, sanitation and hygiene could prevent millions of maternal deaths.

03/17/2026

https://www.pathfinder.org/impact-stories/m-mama-an-emergency-transport-system-in-tanzania-is-saving-mothers-lives/

Imagine being transported—unconscious—in order to safely deliver your baby. That’s exactly what happened to Anna during a prolonged labor. While Anna had

01/29/2026

Thank you Zan Times for telling these forgotten stories.

This report has been published in partnership with the Guardian. Parwana* no longer recognises her own children. Once known in her Kandahar village for her beauty, the 36-year-old now sits on the floor of her mother’s home, rocking silently. After nine pregnancies and six miscarriages, many under ...

01/13/2026

In November, a 21-year-old woman showed up at a midwifery clinic in the north of Haiti, seven months pregnant. Violently abused by her boyfriend after she refused an abortion, she had received no p…

10/07/2025

https://internationalmidwives.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-renad-salem-a-midwife-working-in-gaza/

Renad was a newly graduated midwife when the conflict erupted in Gaza. She felt a deep responsibility to care for her people, and she could not walk away from the thousands of women and newborns who still needed her. After two years, she is now working as a midwife at a field hospital in southern Ga...

10/06/2025

These guidelines are a game-changer. But to end preventable deaths from PPH, we need more than evidence and protocols. We call on governments, health systems, donors, and partners to step up, adopt these recommendations, adopt them quickly, and invest in midwives and maternal care so that postpartum haemorrhage becomes a tragedy of the past.

— Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE

These guidelines set out effective measures to prevent, detect, and treat postpartum haemorrhage, ensuring women receive safe, high-quality care during birth and the immediate postpartum period.

08/09/2025

Human dignity and human rights must guide all our actions.

New evidence suggests mistreatment remains common in maternal and newborn care, with new research across four countries finding that 60 per cent of vaginal exams were done without consent, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

08/09/2025

Here are eight strategies that can significantly reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, even in low-resource health settings. 

08/06/2025

"Together, they demonstrated the power of partnership in meeting the urgent needs of women in humanitarian settings."

The Association des Sages-Femmes d’Haïti ran a mobile clinic in Port-au-Prince to provide essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health (SRMNAH) services to displaced and vulnerable women and girls. In a context of insecurity, widespread displacement, and a struggling h...