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ICM’s 2024 Essential Competencies set a global standard for safe, rights-based midwifery care across all health contexts.

Midwifery Models of Care are a cost-effective, rights-based solution to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes worldwide.

The Americas RPC seeks an Emerging Leader to help strengthen midwifery regionally and globally through strategic collaboration and support.

The theme of the 34th ICM Triennial Congress, One Million More Midwives, reflects the urgent need for at least one million additional midwives at the global level to meet the SRMNAH needs.

"Melanatal: Bridging Gaps in Maternity Care for Black and Brown Families" A midwife's innovative app enhances midwifery education and clinical practice by improving diagnosis and treatment for Black and Brown mothers and newborns.

Midwives must uphold the International Code, providing ethical, evidence-based breastfeeding support while avoiding commercial influence and misleading marketing practices.

Group Care empowers midwives to deliver supportive, collaborative care that significantly improves maternal and newborn outcomes while boosting work satisfaction.

ICM is leaving X (Twitter), prioritizing platforms that align with our values of respect, dignity, and human rights in midwifery.

Stephanie Marriott, a global midwifery advocate, works with ICM as the newest midwife advisor to advance education, climate resilience, and midwifery standards worldwide.

Stakeholders across the EU/EEA can now provide urgent feedback on proposed updates to the EU Directive on Midwifery Qualifications (Directive 2005/36/EC). ICM, in collaboration with EMA and EFNNMA, urges midwives’ associations, regulators, and educational institutions to submit feedback directly to Spark Legal and Policy Consulting.

ICM promotes Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) to improve newborn health, emphasizing skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding, and family involvement as essential to reducing neonatal mortality globally.

ICM’s updated website is a finalist for the Anthem Award in the Health Awareness category! This is a huge opportunity for ICM, and our profession.