• Public health round-up News

  • More midwives needed to improve maternal and newborn survival News

    Resumo em Inglês:

    Retention of midwives, especially in rural areas, is a major challenge for many countries, one that threatens to negate all the hard work and resources invested in their training. Priya Shetty reports.
  • Funding, flexible management needed for Brazil's health worker gaps News

    Resumo em Inglês:

    Last month the first Cuban physicians arrived in Brazil under a new government programme to work in underserved parts of the country, both rural and urban. Francisco Eduardo de Campos tells Claudia Jurberg why the Mais Médicos (More Physicians) programme is necessary.
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