Deploying Midwives to South Sudan

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2017) include: (1) 30 international UN volunteer midwives and 15 national UN volunteer midwives were recruited and placed in hospitals and primary health care centres where they provided urgently needed maternal and newborn health services; (2) 387 195 pregnant women received prenatal care and more than 60 985 safe deliveries were conducted under the supervision of qualified midwives in targeted hospitals and facilities; (3) 7 093 health workers including midwifery and nursing students were trained on sexual and reproductive health emergency obstetric care and midwifery skills; and (4) over 4 568 midwifery and nursing students received clinical instruction and guidance from the UN midwives. These results have contributed to an increased availability of midwifery and reproductive health services for women and adolescent girls across South Sudan including those displaced by conflict; and increased capacity of graduate midwives midwifery students and health workers to deliver emergency obstetric care and gender-responsive reproductive health and midwifery services.