EMERGENCY in Afghanistan

Breech Without Borders is collaborating with EMERGENCY, a nonprofit NGO based in Italy with global healthcare projects to improve maternal and infant health in Afghanistan. BWB is providing vaginal breech training and educational materials, free of charge, to the midwives and physicians at the Anabah Maternity Centre, a busy hospital supporting over 600 births per month or 7,200 births per year.

In June 2003, EMERGENCY opened a Maternity Centre in Anabah, Afghanistan, to provide antenatal, gynaecological, obstetric, and neonatal care to the population of the Panjshir Valley and surrounding provinces. In 2015, the Maternity Centre underwent an expansion, with a new state-of-the-art wing improving its facilities and increasing the number of beds available.

BWB is providing online breech training and other materials to all maternity staff members, free of charge. In exchange, the Anabah Maternity Centre is providing BWB data on clinical outcomes of all breech births attended at their hospital, normally 200-300 breech births per year, for a 5-year period. This will help BWB and Anabah Maternity Centre understand the impacts of physiological breech birth training in a setting where almost all breech babies are born vaginally and cesarean section is reserved for true emergencies. 

Would you like to support this initiative? Please consider donating to our Globalize Breech Birth fundraiser or directly at bit.ly/givetoBWB. 

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