Community midwives participate in a USAID-funded training on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) approach in Yemen in July 2022. Community midwives are often the only healthcare professionals available in rural areas, providing primary health services to not only pregnant women, new mothers, and their babies, but to the broader community – including children under five – despite lacking proper knowledge and skills. To increase midwives’ capacity to deliver essential, high-quality child health services, USAID’s Yemen Systems, Health, and Resilience Project (SHARP), in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health and Population,trains midwives on IMCI, which enables community midwives to diagnose common and concerning childhood illnesses, such as diarrhea, fever, respiratory and bacterial infections, and malnutrition. Midwives also can provide follow-up treatment and refer children for advanced health services if needed, reducing preventable mortality, minimizing illness and disability, and promoting healthy growth and development of children under five years old. Photo Credit: Omar Al Gunaid, Communication Specialist, SHARP.
| Date Taken: | 07.22.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 08.01.2022 14:22 |
| Photo ID: | 7347092 |
| VIRIN: | 220722-D-D0499-039 |
| Resolution: | 1349x899 |
| Size: | 203.22 KB |
| Location: | YE |
| Web Views: | 25 |
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