< label > Language < /label > English < /div > < div class= " field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden " > < div class= " field-items " > < div class= " field-item even " property= " content:encoded " > < p > < strong > Yangon, Myanmar – < /strong > Midwife Daw Aye Myint is the first health professional to ever be based ..."> < label > Language < /label > English < /div > < div class= " field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden " > < div class= " field-items " > < div class= " field-item even " property= " content:encoded " > < p > < strong > Yangon, Myanmar – < /strong > Midwife Daw Aye Myint is the first health professional to ever be based ..." /> < label > Language < /label > English < /div > < div class= " field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden " > < div class= " field-items " > < div class= " field-item even " property= " content:encoded " > < p > < strong > Yangon, Myanmar – < /strong > Midwife Daw Aye Myint is the first health professional to ever be based ..." />

No place too far: Midwives deployed to far-flung villages in Myanmar

< div class= " form-item form-type-item " > < label > Language < /label > English < /div > < div class= " field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden " > < div class= " field-items " > < div class= " field-item even " property= " content:encoded " > < p > < strong > Yangon, Myanmar – < /strong > Midwife Daw Aye Myint is the first health professional to ever be based in Htamakaut, a remote village in the rural Magway region. She arrived there only 11 months ago. < /p > < p > Risks are high for mothers and infants in the area, where reproductive health care is sorely lacking. Torrential rains make the village inaccessible for months at a time, separating residents from the outside world. In the past, many women resorted to giving birth without the assistance of a skilled midwife or other health professional. < /p > < /div > < /div > < /div > < div class= " field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden " > < div class= " field-items " > < div class= " field-item even " > < img typeof= " foaf:Image " src= " http://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/news/IMG_0375_newsbanner.jpg " width= " 690 " height= " 434 " alt= " Midwife Daw Aye Myint visits the home of a new mother for a postpartum check-up in the remote region of Magway. © UNFPA Myanmar " / > < /div > < /div > < /div >
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