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Mozambique

Abstract:

(Angela is in Mozambique working as a nurse manager to develop a health programme for members of the disbanded Renamo Army.) The Ministry of Health in Mozambique encourages and facilitates the training of traditional birth attendants [TBAs]. During 1991 in Zambezia Province, the government midwives were trained in the provincial capital, Quelimane, to train TBAs in courses of three weeks' duration. In Morrumbala district a study was undertaken to examine the Knowledge, Attitudes ad Practices of the TBAs before and then six months after their training courses. This article examines the findings and recommends that TBA training continues as a priority to improve the maternal and child health care to the rural disadvantaged.

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Africa, health care in developing countries, international maternity care, Mozambique, third world midwifery care