Dr. Julitta Onabanjo, Regional Director for UNFPA East and Southern Africa, discusses the role of midwives in integrated health services, at the International Conference of Midwives (ICM) Africa Regional Conference in Windhoek, Namibia, from 12-14 September 2019.

Dr. Charles Sagoe-Moses, WHO Representative to Namibia, discusses the need for quality midwifery care to achieve universal health coverage, at the ICM Africa Regional Conference in Windhoek, Namibia, from 12-14 September 2019.

Monicah, 13, was astonished to learn that female genital mutilation (FGM) is not just an issue just within her community, in Kenya’s rural Samburu County. “I realized it we are not the only ones to practise FGM,” she said recently. “It is the whole world.” Cut at age 10, she was married off to a 32-year-old man.