Midwives Improving Women's Health Globally: Highlights from the International Confederation of Midwives 30th Triennial Congress

International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) 29th Triennial Conference, Durban, South Africa, 19-23 June 2011.

South Africa (SOMSA) are to be co event. With no organisational office This is the first time that the ICM Triennial Conference has been held in Africa and the hosts, the Society of Midwives of ngratulated on this excellent they produced a conference for 3,500 participants from 109 countries. The scientific programme was well planned and ran smoothly. The social events were inspiring and everyo...

Official Publication of the International Confederation of Midwives

A Report from The 30th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هجدهم، آبان 1398، 740-739    سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هجدهم، آبان 1398، 740-739           گزارشی از سی‌امین کنگره انجمن بین المللی برای پیشگیری از خودکشی   A Report from The 30th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaei...

Highlights from the 17th International Leprosy Congress.

The Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) opened 2 years ago and provided excellent facilities for more than 1500 ILC delegates, representing more than 50 countries, who attended the 17 ILC. Delegates received a substantial conference pack including a multilingual CD ROM of ILEP Technical Publications. A free copy of the December 2007 issue of Leprosy Review was also available from t...

Midwives for midwives. Protecting the sacred circle.

María Catalina lives in a small village called Áto, about an hour and a half walk from Antigua, a colonial city in the Guatemalan highlands. The region is surrounded by volcanoes, and is an agricultural center for the production of corn and coffee. Catalina looks much older than her 38 years, and is plagued by chronic health problems stemming from a life of poverty and hard physical labor. She ...