Teach Traditional Ethiopian Midwives to Save Lives Photo Gallery

Delivering drugs to save lives

Venture Strategies’ technical advisor, Dr Ndola Prata, shows misoprostol tablets to an Ethiopian traditional midwife.

A solution at last

Dr Ndola Prata shows a package of misoprostol to traditional midwives during a training session. They are excited and relieved to have their first technology with the potential to dramatically reduce mothers' deaths from hemorrhage.

Rejoicing

The traditional midwives start dancing and singing after their training session, expressing their thanks for the program.

The women of Ethiopia

A beautiful Ethiopian woman at a clinic.

Girl, waiting

A girl waits for her mother outside a rural hospital. Families may wait for days at the hospital gates while their loved ones are treated.

Ethiopian countryside

Exquisite and isolated, this is part of the geographic challenge of delivering health care to remote villages typical of Sub-Saharan Africa.

On the edge of town

Midwives makes links into the community

This Maternal and Child Health nurse trains and empowers traditional birth attendants in the communities surrounding the reference health center where she works, to offer misoprostol and refer complications to the health center.