{"id":7602,"date":"2026-01-25T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/the-state-of-the-worlds-midwifery-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:25:37","slug":"the-state-of-the-worlds-midwifery-2021","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/the-state-of-the-worlds-midwifery-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the World&#8217;s Midwifery 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"publication-cnts\">\n<div class=\"colp-lct\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"colp-rct\">\n<article data-history-node-id=\"37995\" class=\"ct-publications full clearfix glbl\">\n<div>\n<p>The State of the World\u2019s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2021 builds on previous reports in the SoWMy series and represents an unprecedented effort to document the whole world\u2019s Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health (SRMNAH) workforce, with a particular focus on midwives. It calls for urgent investment in midwives to enable them to fulfil their potential to contribute towards UHC and the SDG agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article><\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"abt-pub-wrap\">\n<div class=\"abt-pub\">\n<div class=\"cl-pub\">\n<p>Publication date<\/p>\n<p>May 2021<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"abt-pub mrg-t-32\">\n<div class=\"cl-pub\">\n<p>Author<\/p>\n<p>UNFPA, WHO, ICM<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"cl-pub\">\n<p>Number of pages<\/p>\n<p>80<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"action-blk mrg-t-32\">\n<div class=\"download-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"dropdown-select\">\n<p>                              <select class=\"pdf-document\"><option value=\"23\" data-display-text=\"English\" data-display-pdfurl=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pub-pdf\/21-038-UNFPA-SoWMy2021-Report-ENv4302_0.pdf\"> English <\/option><\/select>\n                            <\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"download-icon-holder\">\n                                                           <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pub-pdf\/21-038-UNFPA-SoWMy2021-Report-ENv4302_0.pdf\" class=\"download selected\"><\/p>\n<p>                              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/themes\/custom\/unfpa_global_redesign\/images\/icon-download-white.svg\" alt=\"Download\"><br \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                          <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/publications\/sowmy-2021?rand=6489\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of the World\u2019s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2021 builds on previous reports in the SoWMy series and represents an unprecedented effort to document the whole world\u2019s Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health (SRMNAH) workforce, with a particular focus on midwives. It calls for urgent investment in midwives to enable them to fulfil their potential to contribute towards UHC and&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99043,"featured_media":7603,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[414,436,1413],"ground_category":[315,319],"class_list":["post-7602","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-midwifery","tag-state","tag-worlds","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-4-time-death"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/webp\/public\/pub-pdfpreview\/8fb3b8d9541dac1228d1d8bca16c4220.png.webp?itok=adzoWvHh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}