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Acknowledgements
Labour and Delivery Care is one of 13 Blended Learning Modules for the
Ethiopian Health Extension Programme. Together with the practical skills training
sessions that accompany each of the supported self-study texts, this programme will
upgrade the Health Extension Workers who complete the curriculum to Health
Extension Practitioners at Level-IV of the Ethiopian Occupational Standards. The
upgrading programme is sponsored by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health
(FMOH) and the Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs). The FMOH gratefully
acknowledges the receipt of funding for this programme from the Ethiopian Office
of UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund), The Open
University UK, the Alan and Nesta Ferguson Foundation Trust UK, and AMREF
(the African Medical and Research Foundation). We are also thankful for the
support of the Ethiopian Office of Jhpiego for freely enabling their expert to
participate in the development of this Module.
This Labour and Delivery Care Module was produced by a team of Ethiopian
experts, who were trained and supported by experts in blended learning pedagogy
from the HEAT (Health Education and Training) Team for Africa at The Open
University UK. The contributors of original material are:
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Dr Yifru Berhan, Hawassa University, College of Medicine and Health
Sciences
Dr Basiro Davey, HEAT Team, The Open University UK
Dr Yirgu Gebrehiwot, Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Medicine
Dr Mulualem Gessese, Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa
Fekadu Mazengia, Gondar University
Sr Alemnesh Tekleberhan, Jhpiego Ethiopia.
The Academic Editors of Labour and Delivery Care are Dr Basiro Davey, Deputy
Director (Ethiopia), HEAT Team, and Peggotty Graham, both at The Open
University UK. Basiro Davey also produced the anatomical diagrams; the other
illustrations in colour were drawn by Dr Radmilla Mileusnic at The Open
University.
The other members of the HEAT Team are:
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Lesley-Anne Long, HEAT Programme Director
Alison Robinson, HEAT Programme Coordinator
Dawn Partner, HEAT Senior Production Assistant
Jessica Aumann, HEAT Programme Assistant.
We acknowledge the vital contributions of the Programme Coordinators within
Ethiopia:
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Ato Mohammed Hussein Abeseko, UNICEF Ethiopia and the Federal
Ministry of Health
Ato Tedla Mulatu, AMREF Ethiopia.
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The cover design for Labour and Delivery Care is by Chris Hough, Learning and
Teaching Solutions, The Open University UK. The cover photographs are
reproduced with the permission of Nancy Durrell McKenna, Founder Director of
SafeHands for Mothers.We particularly wish to acknowledge our use in this
Module of adapted extracts and illustrations from Safe and Clean Birth and
Newborn Care: A Reference for Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia (2008),
which was based on A Book for Midwives: Care for Pregnancy, Birth and Women’s
Health by Susan Klein, Suellen Miller and Fiona Thompson (2004), published by
the Hesperian Foundation, Berkeley, California, USA. The Book for Midwives was
created with the collaboration of hundreds of advisors, reviewers, writers, artists
and others, whose expertise is gratefully acknowledged. It is through the generous
permission and encouragement of the Hesperian Foundation for others to copy,
reproduce, or adapt the original book, including its illustrations, to meet local needs
— provided that reproductions are provided free or at cost and not for profit — that
the production of parts of this Labour and Delivery Care Module was made
possible. Safe and Clean Birth and Newborn Care was adapted from the original
book by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) Safe Motherhood
Technical Working Group, with P. Annie Clark, MPH, CNM, Midwifery Advisor,
ACCESS Program/American College of Nurse Midwives, with the generous
support of the US Agency for International Development under the terms of the
ACCESS Cooperative Agreement GHS-A-00-04-00002-00. The author of Study
Session 7, Dr Mulualem Gessese, wishes to acknowledge the following sources:
Perinatal Education Program: Newborn Care, Unit 20, 2005; Textbook of
Neonatal Resuscitation, 5th Edition, American Heart Association, American
Academy of Pediatrics, 2007; Protocol of Common Newborn Problems, Yekatit 12
Hospital, 2008; Community Based Postnatal Care: A Practical Guide for
Community Health Workers, 2009.
The opinions expressed in this Module are those of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect the views of any of the donor organisations whose generous
support made the production of Labour and Delivery Care possible.
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