{"id":1140,"date":"2011-12-02T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T11:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:59:08","slug":"rebuilding-nursing-and-midwifery-in-somaliland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/rebuilding-nursing-and-midwifery-in-somaliland\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding nursing and midwifery in Somaliland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Press-release_Rebuilding-nursing-and-midwifery-in-Somaliland1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1250\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Somaliland, patient care, child mortality, Fouzia Mohamed Ismail, Hargeisa, Horn of Africa, midwifery, nursing\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Patience-and-Care-border1-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Somaliland, patient care, child mortality, Fouzia Mohamed Ismail, Hargeisa, Horn of Africa, midwifery, nursing\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Patience-and-Care-border1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Patience-and-Care-border1-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Patience-and-Care-border1-170x240.jpg 170w, https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Patience-and-Care-border1.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somaliland\u2019s maternal, infant and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. A rudimentary health system collapsed in the final years of the civil war which ended in 1991. Fighting forced the country\u2019s health professionals to leave the country or flee to refugee camps. But since 2000, a small number of well-qualified, experienced nurses and midwives have returned to Somaliland determined to rebuild their professions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Press-release_Rebuilding-nursing-and-midwifery-in-Somaliland1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1278\" title=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pdf_download_ari.png\" alt=\"Download PDF\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somaliland\u2019s maternal, infant and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. A rudimentary health system collapsed in the final years of the civil war which ended in 1991. Fighting forced the country\u2019s health professionals to leave the country or flee to refugee camps. But since 2000, a small number of well-qualified, experienced nurses and midwives have returned to Somaliland determined to rebuild their professions. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[138,137,139,141,109,108,140,107],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-child-mortality","tag-fouzia-mohamed-ismail","tag-hargeisa","tag-horn-of-africa","tag-midwifery","tag-nursing","tag-patient-care","tag-somaliland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rebuilding nursing and midwifery in Somaliland - Africa Research Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/rebuilding-nursing-and-midwifery-in-somaliland\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rebuilding nursing and midwifery in Somaliland - Africa Research Institute\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Somaliland\u2019s maternal, infant and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. 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