Village-Based Midwife Programme in Indonesia

The government of Indonesia launched the village-based midwife program to place a skilled birth attendant in every village to provide antenatal and perinatal care, family planning, other reproductive health services, and nutrition counseling. The attendants were also to facilitate basic primary health-care services, including immunization and nutrition interventions. Lessons from the program are particularly timely for 68 priority countries in Countdown, many of which are attempting to scale up skilled birth attendance to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. [from author]


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