Maternal and Child Health Programs:

Maternal and child health is an issue of growing concern throughout the developing world. Preventable diseases and poor healthcare are causing an increase in maternal and infant death rates. Every minute of every day, a woman dies giving birth, and more than 50 million women in the world suffer from poor reproductive health. Physicians for Peace designed the Women's and Children's Health Initiative to address these issues by providing medical education programs that enhance both capability and capacity in women's healthcare.

Resource Mothers

The Resource Mothers Program, modeled on a Virginia-based initiative to improve the health of expectant and new mothers and their babies empowers women in deprived and underserved neighborhoods in the developing world to serve as mentors to pregnant adolescents, helping them to have a safe pregnancy and a healthy baby. The program was launched in November 2005 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic as "Madres Tutelares" and has seen the births of hundreds of healthy newborns....read more

Prenatal and Neonatal Advanced Life Saving Training

Often saving the life of a new born child is as simple as knowing what to do. This type of training is crucial in the developing world in order to reduce infant mortality. Physicians for Peace has sent teaching missions to India, covering a wide range of pediatric techniques, from basic hygiene and infection control to IV therapy, developmental care, and much more. This type of knowledge can empower one nurse to save countless infant lives, as well as pass the learning on to others...read more

Midwifery

Physicians for Peace has partnered with volunteers to create an educational training class focusing on midwives. Most often midwives are primary care-givers in many of the countries where we work. The goal of providing training for new or improved practices and techniques will result in many mothers' and babies' lives saved. The Physicians for Peace volunteers teach on issues dealing with abnormal labor, post partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and basic neonatal life support....read more