Development Partnership Trains New Timor-Leste Midwives

In partnership with the Ministry of Health and UNFPA, USAID's health improvement project has developed a program for training and supporting midwives on family planning counseling and clinical practices. Building on the success of the program earlier this year with 17 Indonesian midwives contracted by the Ministry of Health until Timorese midwives are fully trained, the project is now working with the first group of Timorese midwives, this time in Baucau District. Training for Timorese midwives in Dili and Ermera districts will start in November.