International Day of the Midwife: With women on the emergency frontlines
May 5, 2026To mark International Day of the Midwife as Médecins Sans Frontières, we’re shining a light on the role of midwives as frontline emergency responders. Midwives are essential to prevent and resolve obstetric emergencies, but also indispensable in responding to humanitarian emergencies. They are central to not only providing lifesaving care but also to...
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Afghanistan: “As midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country.”
June 10, 2020Zahra Koochizad is the MSF midwife supervisor in the MSF maternity wing of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was working on the maternity ward on 12 May 2020, the day of an attack by unknown assailants who killed 15 mothers and...
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