Stories
Read accounts from health workers involved in Health Partnership activity across the globe and the impact it's having on patients.
Knowledge is Power: Safeguarding Maternal Health During COVID-19
5 May 2022
Since 2011, Ammalife has partnered with Birmingham Women’s Hospital, UK, and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, to co-produce interventions...
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Working Together to Save Lives: Delivering quality maternal healthcare in Malawi
7 March 2022
Every woman deserves access to quality healthcare. In this interview, we hear from Pilirani Makungwa, a Nursing Officer at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital....
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Maternal Mental Health in Malawi
20 October 2020
In this blog, Mwawi Ng’oma, a Registered Mental Health Nurse and Midwife shares her journey into the profession and insights from her Health Partnership....
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On the Maternity Ward: Protecting Mothers and Babies amid COVID-19
4 May 2020
To celebrate the International Day of the Midwife, we spoke to Catherine Namutosi, Senior Midwife at the China-Uganda Friendship Hospital, Naguru....
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Ugandan Midwives in the Wake of COVID-19
4 May 2020
In the run up to the International Day of the Midwife, we heard from Agnes Nakyanzi and Mwebaza Enid, members of LAMRN in Uganda....
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Extending Care Across Accra
1 April 2020
We met P.W. Inspector Ellen Manu, a nurse working at the Ghana Police Hospital who shared her experience of caring for patients....
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Midwives, mothers and medicines
3 April 2019
I decided I wanted to be the person who gives babies to mothers as I love children....
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Three women (and a man!) making a difference for the mothers living in the Mwanza region, Tanzania
4 April 2018
Here are the accounts of three female CHWs (and one man!) who are bringing real change to the communities they serve....
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Maternal and Newborn Health: Breaking barriers in rural Uganda
24 August 2017
Vincent Kyeswa is the manager of the St. Bernards Mannya Health Centre, situated in Masaka Province. Our colleague Edvige met him and his team in March 2017. ...
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Video – Global Links: Working Together to Improve Child Health Across Africa
21 September 2017
RCPCH Global Links is a long-term volunteering project funded by THET. The project places UK volunteers in health institutions in five African countries....
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Video – Midwifery & Health Partnership volunteering
21 September 2017
UK midwives who volunteered with the Global Midwifery Twinning Project reflect on their time overseas, the challenges local midwives face......
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Video – What would the world be like without midwives?
21 September 2017
In this video UK Midwives who volunteered with the Global Midwifery Twinning Project answer the question, what would the world be like without Midwives?...
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