She spent three hours a day in a minibus to attend UNFPA’s trainings for Nurse-Midwives,
She got her diploma and became a Nurse-Midwife in Minya, Egypt,
She bought her own Tuk-Tuk to visit women for pre and postnatal care
She delivers 100 babies a month!
Discover Ibstisam’s extraordinary story through the UNFPA documentary launched in the context of
the World Population Day “Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services”:
For more information about the World Population Day and about Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services please follow the links:
‘Today, as we commemorate World Population Day, it is time to re-energize our commitment to universal access to reproductive health services, especially voluntary family planning. This commitment is as relevant today as it was when world leaders made it at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo…‘keep reading the Message from the Executive Director of UNFPA in English and in in Arabic.
The London Summit on Family Planning is the first of many steps scheduled to fulfill UNFPA commitments. On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with UNFPA and other partners will host a groundbreaking summit that will mobilize global policy, financing, commodity, and service delivery commitments to support the rights of an additional 120 million women and girls in the world's poorest countries to use contraceptive information, services and supplies, without coercion or discrimination, by 2020… Learn more about the London Summit on Family Planning
And Read our report on “Women’s Need for Family Planning in Arab Countries” to learn more about maternal and women health in the Arab Region.
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