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Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery Celebrate! Black History Month Honorees 2017 The history of African-American midwives serving their communities goes beyond the diaspora. Steeped in [...]

H.R. 1976 (originally H.R. 1054), the Access to Certified Professional Midwives Act, recently re-introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in May 2013, will open doors to full access to CPM [...]

The MANA Division of Research is currently moving towards a model of Annual Reporting of birth outcomes—in other words, our vision is that every year a paper would be published in the [...]

Capacity building is essential for the success of a future CPM study, which would triple the size of the MANA Statistics Project. Capacity- building projects include increased support staff (Data [...]

MANA believes that to best serve the needs of consumers, midwives and particularly those without equal access to education, information, or legislation, we must strengthen our communications team [...]

MEAC accreditation for CPM educational programs is integral to commitments defined in the US-MERA April 2014 meeting report. MEAC accreditation enables midwifery schools to participate in federal [...]

Mamatoto Village seeks to improve perinatal health outcomes for underserved and high-risk women and babies in the National Capital Region through continuation and extension of the Community [...]

After extensive review of literature and precedents, the multi-disciplinary HBS Collaboration Task Force from the Home Birth Summit (HBS) has developed model guidelines for coordination among [...]

Our Best Practice Toolkit for Midwifery Regulation and Licensure will be a user-friendly and audience-targeted web site repository of documents on midwifery education, competencies, scope of [...]

The JJ Way® is a midwifery model of care which has successfully reduced the incidence of low birth weight and premature babies among African-American and other minority women who are at greater [...]