Kate Champions Nurses on International Midwives’ Day Meg Donohue
In honor of Nursing Now 2020, a global effort to promote and support the nursing profession, the Duchess of Cambridge interviewed midwife Harriet Nayiga for
Nursing Times.
According to a press release from Kensington Palace, the interview took place in March, but was published on
Nursing Times’ site today, International Day of the Midwife. Kate also selected the cover for
Nursing Times’ May issue, per the Duke and Duchess’s Twitter.
Nayiga is the founder and director of Midwife-led Community Transformation (MILCOT),“a charity bridging the gap between midwives and communities in Uganda by focusing on adolescent sexual health,” per
Kensington Palace/ Twitter
The Duchess of Cambridge has praised the work of midwives around the world in a special interview with a pioneering health leader.
The Duchess spoke to community midwife, Harriet Nayiga, whose work in Uganda is credited with saving many lives and improving health support for mothers and babies. The interview has been published in Nursing Times and has been released on the International Day of the Midwife, May 5th 2021.
In the chat, the Duchess spoke to Harriet about the many challenges faced by midwives in a country where infant mortality is high. Kate heard about the problems many women face as they approach the birth of their babies and how long distances to hospitals mean many end up delivering at home without all the support that they need.
As a midwife in South Florida with a practice that is 85-90% Black, it was difficult to know what to say to my clients in the wake of the murder of MaâKhia Bryant. With International Day of the Midwife on May 5, we are reminded once again that state violence is a big factor in why Black midwives are necessary.
According to HuffPost, in a White House roundtable during Black Maternal Health Week in April, Vice President Kamala Harris linked the same racial inequities that lead to police killing Black people to how Black women suffer higher rates of death in pregnancy, and childbirth.
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