MIDWIVES FOR HAITI INC
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Mission Statement
We have a vision that all Haitian women will have access to prenatal care and deliver with the assistance of a Skilled Birth Attendant. Midwives For Haiti is fighting maternal and infant mortality in Haiti, the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere to be a mother, baby, or child under 5. Our projects educate and empower Haitian men and women to improve the health of their communities, creating lasting change for our graduates and the lives of the mothers and children they care for. Learn more or sign up to volunteer at: www.midwivesforhaiti.org.
About This Cause
We offer a rigorous 12-month training program for Haitian nurses to become Skilled Birth Attendants. Since 2006, we've trained 71 Skilled Birth Attendants. As there are currently less than 100 obstetricians and 100 nurse-midwives in Haiti, our graduates make up nearly 1/3 of the total skilled providers working in Haiti. In 2013, our graduates performed over 60,000 prenatal exams and provided skilled care at over 12,000 births throughout Haiti. Our Mobile Prenatal Clinic employs four full-time and two part-time Haitian Skilled Birth Attendants to work in 20 rural villages throughout the Central Plateau. Our midwives typically see over 500 mothers each month. In 2013, we provided over 5,000 free patient care visits and 41 emergency transports. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, who runs St Therese Hospital, we began employing several of our graduates to staff the maternity ward 24/7. We now pay the salaries of thirteen Skilled Birth Attendants working there, utilize the hospital as the site of our clinical training, and support the maternity center with further resources and supplies. With our Postnatal Care Program, we hope to increase the number of patients receiving postnatal care at Hospital St.Therese from 1% to 100%. The Postnatal Care Program is filling a critical gap in the continuum of maternity care at St.Therese as postnatal care can mean the difference between life and death for moms and babies. Matròns, or Traditional Birth Attendants, attend an estimated 70% of deliveries in Haiti, most of which are outside of medical facilities. In collaboration with Haiti's Ministry of Health, our Matròn Outreach Program offers a 5-month formal training program in achieving clean, safe deliveries by utilizing strategies that have been statistically proven to reduce rates of maternal and neonatal death. Along with providing matròns with Clean Delivery Kits, we are working to better integrate them into the medical system. Many matròns who have graduated from our program now accompany high risk mothers to prenatal care clinics or to medical facilities for delivery. Since beginning this collaboration in 2012, we've trained 59 matròns, provided over 700 Clean Delivery Kits, and have seen an increase in referrals of high risk mothers.