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India India
Research Paper
May 14, 2025
Defining disrespect and abuse of newborns: a review of the evidence and an expanded typology of respectful maternity care
Uploaded by Chaitanya Tupaki Sreepoorna
This review expands evidence on respectful care for newborns and families of stillborn infants. Building on existing respectful maternity care frameworks, it identifies additional categories related to accountability and bereavement care, strengthening understanding of quality newborn care.
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India India
Research Paper
May 13, 2025
The Mistreatment of Women during Childbirth in Health Facilities Globally: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
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This publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) offers a mixed-methods systematic review of the literature on the mistreatment in childbirth in seven core mistreatment themes. Read More...

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India India
Best Practices
May 08, 2025
Introducing Birth Companion in Labour: A Quality Improvement InitiativeTamkin Khan, Ayesha Ahmad
Uploaded by Tamkin Khan
This quality improvement initiative introduced birth companionship in a labour ward where it was previously unavailable. Aiming to increase access from 0% to 100% within six months, it demonstrates how institutional change can support a key component of respectful maternity care.
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India India
Best Practices
May 08, 2025
Birth companion in labor
Uploaded by Tamkin Khan

Introducing Birth Companion in Labor as part of Respectful Maternity Care. it was part of quality improvement project.

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Pakistan Pakistan
Research Paper
March 06, 2025
Supportive and Respectful Maternity Care (S-RMC)
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The research brief present the S-RMC intervention and its impact on women's experiences of mistreatment and postpartum anxiety and depression symptoms.

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India India
Best Practices
February 21, 2025
Mothers' Picnic
Uploaded by Dilip Sarwate
Developed in Chhattisgarh under the SUMAN initiative, Mothers’ Picnic familiarizes pregnant women with health facilities before childbirth. Through facility tours and counselling on maternal health, respectful maternity care, and gender equality, it helps women feel informed, confident, and prepared for delivery.
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India India
IEC Material
February 03, 2025
Disrespect and Abuse during childbirth - Birth stories and lived experience
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Experiential shares of women facing discrimination during childbirth

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India India
IEC Material
February 03, 2025
Amplifying our collective voices for RMC - UGC Films
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9 UGCs on the importance of raisng our voices and demands for RMC 

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India India
IEC Material
February 03, 2025
Improving information and awareness on RMC - Posters
Uploaded by Chaitanya Tupaki Sreepoorna

Set of posters to share information and sperad awareness on the essentials of RMC

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India India
IEC Material
February 03, 2025
Case stories of disrespect and abuse in care at the facility level
Uploaded by Chaitanya Tupaki Sreepoorna

This film depicts the various case stories of violations in RMC in our facilities to the detriment of the health and well being of the mother and the baby

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