Shamimu Nabasirye credits her traditional birthattendant with saving her life.
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As a birthattendant, I've seen and heard it all.
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OVD forms an integral part of basic emergency obstetric care and a skilled birthattendant's duties.
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A few years later he went to the same birthattendant, also a bone setter, to treat a soccer injury.
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Photograph: Lachlan Moore Rhea Dempsey is a birthattendant and counsellor who consulted with Ivin and Coleman as Jo's character developed.
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Home-delivered topical antiseptics, facility-based birth , and birthattendant hand-washing were associated with greater likelihoods of cord separation after 7 days of age.
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In a city rife with predatory quacks and counterfeit pharmaceuticals Atieno, 38, was a trained birthattendant who gave her services for free.
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During Super Typhoon Yolanda, UNFPA reports 900 women a day gave birth in so-called makeshift clinics without so much as a skilled birthattendant present.
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It was followed by a program to train traditional birthattendants.
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But traditional birthattendants still find plenty of work.
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Circumcisers learn to perform FGM while training with elder women to become traditional birthattendants.
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Ideally, health clinics should have good relationships with community leaders and traditional healers and birthattendants, Mallett said.
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We also reviewed Traditional BirthAttendant (TBA) training.
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Members of the Ten Beloved Sisters group of traditional birthattendants talking to BBC Africa Health Correspondent, Anne Soy.
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Bringing the toll down means ensuring trained birthattendants are present, emergency hospital care is available and family planning, she said.
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Significant factors included immunisation of infants as well as increasing levels of female education and the availability of skilled birthattendants.