Afghan Midwife Association

About Us

About Afghan Midwife Association:

Afghanistan Midwifery Association is one of the biggest professional associations in Afghanistan. The purpose of the Afghan Midwives Association (AMA) is to advocate for the midwifery profession and strengthen the role of midwives to ensure the wellbeing of the women and their families in Afghanistan. AMA has played an important role on improvement of midwifery profession, advocating for the recognition of midwifery as a separate profession. The Association is leading the whole midwives related issues in the country; focus is on midwifery education, registration, accreditation and career development. AMA is widely recognized association both nationally and internationally, it has strong network with key actors including donors, UN family, line ministries and other associations. The association has been advocating for the establishment of Afghanistan Midwifery and Nursing Council. Working with MoPH, development partners and policy makers at the government level. Afghan midwives put lots of energy and efforts to tackle the high level maternal and child mortality in Afghanistan. Since there is no such control mechanism in our education system, and the quality of education system through private providers are always under question, with rapid increase in number and less opportunity for continues education and mentorship of clinical practice the question of quality care automatically raised. The current BPHS and EPHS has not include in- service training thus most of graduated health practitioners facing lot of problem in actual practice during clinical work.