“Midwifery is a fix, it is not an add-on,” said Franka Cadée, President of the International Confederation of Midwives at the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25. The World Health Organization designated 2020 the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife in recognition of the invaluable contributions of these two professions. To meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, midwives and nurses must be valued and utilized as essential members of the health workforce. Increased utilization of skilled midwives will also help countries achieve universal health coverage and improve access to sexual and reproductive health services, two key actions from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development.
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