Below are extracts of a news article in the May 2015 issue of Africa Health. The full article is freely available here:

http://www.africa-health.com/articles/may_2015/News.pdf

‘Providers and students in low-resource countries will now have access to high-quality academic learning and teaching materials to help reduce maternal and new-born deaths in sub-Saharan Africa.

‘High-quality, obstetric care is a critical factor in sub-Saharan Africa, but local barriers like the availability of training materials, licensing costs and unreliable Internet access can prevent incoming obstetricians and gynaecologists (Obgyns), and midwives from being trained with the best educational materials available. The materials are available through a new collection created by the University of Michigan’s 1000+ OBGYNs Project – a network of American and African universities preparing to train more than 1000 new Obgyns in the region in 10 years…

‘All materials are publicly available for free, and licensed for students, teachers and practitioners to copy and modify to suit their curricular context…’

Project website: www.1000obgyns.org

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