Round Table Margaret Owen The traditional birth attendant and the law
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A recent review (1) indicates the impressive progress achieved in the use of traditional birth attendants as a resource to extend the coverage of the health service. Formal recognition through registration, certification, licensure, or some other means, is rising : 82% of countries in the world now have training programmes as against 37% in 1972. There has also been a shift in thinking on the question of whether traditional birth attendants should be regarded as a stop-gap, providing health care until sufficient numbers of nurses and midwives become available to replace them, or as important and permanent community health workers-the view to which many governments are now inclining. But in spite of the acknowledgement by governments of the essential good sense of harnessing the potential of traditional birth attendants to national health strategies and in spite of the abundance of literature on the training programmes themselves and the plethora of recommendations for future action and improvement, extraordi-
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