{"id":555,"date":"2020-07-03T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amref.org\/uganda\/?p=555"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T09:27:05","slug":"amref-celebrating-midwives-amidst-corona-virus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amref.org\/uganda\/news\/amref-celebrating-midwives-amidst-corona-virus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Amref Celebrating Midwives amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 5th, May 2020 AMREF Health Africa in Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate the International Day of the Midwife (IDM) under the theme \u201cCelebrate: Demonstrate: Mobilize: Unite.\u201d<\/p>\n

For this celebration\u00a0 Amref Health Africa in Uganda\u00a0 partnered\u00a0 with White Ribbon Alliance (WRA)\u00a0 in Uganda to host a Tweet Chat as a way of highlighting the important role midwives play in improving reproductive and maternal health outcomes and most especially, amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic.<\/p>\n

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During the Tweet Chat, participants celebrated midwives, highlighting some of the challenges they face in delivering quality care to women and newborns and more so amidst COVID-19 Pandemic; highlighting some of the partner efforts for these frontline health workers; sharing solutions and lobbing duty bearers to play their\u00a0 part. The Tweet Chat was joined by health professionals including Midwives, Doctors, and Nurses; Young Health Rights Advocates, Policy Makers, Academicians, and Health Bloggers.<\/p>\n

The online storm reached over 678,874 people with a potential impact of 2,095,106. 163 were the contributors, 3,669.59 Followers per contributor with 34 Facebook, and 15 Instagram followers during the time of the engagement.<\/p>\n

As a way of joining the discussion, we were using\u00a0 #Midwives4Women #SaferTogether #IDM2020 as our hashtags, and below are some of the feedback from the\u00a0 chat.<\/p>\n

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