When midwife Philomena Owusu Domfe gets up for work every day she is scared. Domfe has been at the Ridge Hospital in Accra, Ghana's capital city, for eight years. Now each day she shows up to work the ...

For two years, an ambitious initiative in sub-Saharan Africa has demonstrated how pocket-sized ultrasound technology can help bridge the gap in maternal care access. The implementation of ...

Studies indicate that the tendency toward medicalization in Indonesia is driven by people’s belief that there is a social and ...

Black midwives throughout history were not only experts in the birth process but also served as healers, herbalists, ...