Labour ward is just a room where women deliver one next to the other, without even any folding screen, so they can’t have any privacy

A woman is suffering receiving injection for local anesthesia because she needs some sutures after delivering

A nurse using a razor blade to remove sutures from belly of a woman who had a caesarean

A baby just delivered lies next to her mother feet; women have to bring plastic and bed sheet as the hospital can't provide for that

A nurse in labour ward listens to the foetal heartbeat using a pinard horn during a visit of a pregnant woman

A young woman suffers during labor for her first baby; TBA tries to encourage and assist her not only physically but also from a psychological point of view

Elisabeth, 34 years old, is pregnant of her 4th child; she is worried as delivering in africa is a huge risk for life women

A mother receives and hug her new baby after a grueling childbirth of several hours of labor

A woman in the hours before delivery, which will take place at home, with the assistance of a TBA (traditional birth attendant)

Woman in labour pain

Doctor and nurses assisting a woman in labour ward, making massage to stimulate and induce contractions

The woman is almost ready to deliver, but she is very tired after many hours of labor; so a nurse is pushing with all his weight on her belly to help the baby delivering

Because fo poor condition woman deliver on plastic sheets

A nurse using a razor blade to cut the umbilical cord while the mother is embracing her newborn

A woman still lying on operating table after a caesarean, when they start to clean the operating room

A newborn doesn’t breath after childbirth and a nurse lies him on a table under the heat of a bulb to start resuscitate him with artificial respiration

A young woman in labour pain crying is almost ready to deliver her first child

Young nurses assist a woman delivering

Twins cry and lie on a table under the heat of a bulb after that one of them has just been resuscitated

A woman in postnatal ward, after delivering, lying in bed in serious condition: she is receiving medical treatment, oxigen, and blood transfusion

Because of lack of medical supplies and equipment in hospital pregnant women have to provide and carry from home plastic sheet to cover the bed of labour ward; plastic sheet is not steril at all

Alice is a TBA, traditional birth attendant, who lives in southern Uganda, but she visits and assists pregnant women, arriving from all over the country, who prefer to deliver at home rather than using public health facilities

TBA assisting a young woman delivering, in a poor labour ward in TBA’s home

TBAs, traditional birth attendants, assist and help women delivering at home, most of all when they don’t have money required in health facilities, when they live far from hospitals, but also because some time health workers treat women in a rude way so pregnants prefer and feel more confortable using TBAs support

A young girl with her first newborn, sitting on her grandmother bed