Work in the Field
Nurse-Midwives / Certified Midwives (URGENTLY NEEDED)
Requirements
- Appropriate degree and/or certificate in midwifery
- Managerial and supervisory experience
- Ability to train and coach other health workers
- Experience with family planning and mother-child health care
- Current or recent clinical experience
As a midwife with MSF, your experience in both complicated and normal deliveries will be essential. You could be involved in setting up a mother-child health department in a rural clinic, providing reproductive health care from mobile clinics, or treating patients in an urban hospital. Your training skills are crucial because you may be assigned to help traditional birth attendants develop new skills. At the same time, you will need to learn from the women you treat to understand cross-cultural issues surrounding childbirth.
MSF has 234 projects with reproductive health activities. In 2008, we provided antenatal care for 576,000 women and assisted over 100,000 deliveries. Also, we provided prevention of mother-to-child transmission care for more than 11,000 HIV-positive mothers, post-rape care for over 9,500 people, and surgical repair for 300 women with vaginal fistula. Currently, MSF has 83 international field positions for midwives.
| What is it like in the field? Read these accounts: |
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Midwife Debbie Cunningham
MSF-Amsterdam
June 2009 |
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Midwife Lisa Errol
Liberia
January 2006 |
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Midwife Janthimala Price
rural Uganda
February 2005 |
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Midwife Birgit Stümpfl
Mozambique
January 2003 |
