{"id":93583,"date":"2026-08-30T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93583"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:32:10","slug":"africas-male-midwives-are-rare-but-increasing-in-the-fight-against-pregnancy-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/africas-male-midwives-are-rare-but-increasing-in-the-fight-against-pregnancy-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s male midwives are rare but increasing in the fight against pregnancy deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2bcfzi.img?w=800&h=435&q=60&m=2&f=jpg\" alt=\"Lesotho Male Midwife:\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a cold morning, Ntlhane Sehloho grabbed his backpack containing medical equipment and embarked on a three-hour journey, navigating the curving gravel roads leading to a clinic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/diseases-and-conditions\/africa-s-male-midwives-are-rare-but-increasing-in-the-fight-against-pregnancy-deaths\/ar-AA2bcfzo?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=2f90823c89d742f7c2d2a468ccda018b&ei=16\">Read\u00a0 More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>On a cold morning, Ntlhane Sehloho grabbed his backpack containing medical equipment and embarked on a three-hour journey, navigating the curving gravel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/male-midwife.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93585,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93583\/revisions\/93585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}