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>>Bishop: [Spanish] I am Alina Bishop. I am from Mexico. I belong to the Cochrane Consumer Network
and I am currently president of a civil association called Parto Libre (Free Birth)
that is dedicated to humanising the process of giving birth.
I am a perinatal educator and I knew something about education.
I studied professional midwifery. So I knew about reproductive health.
But the Cochrane Colloquia have given me greater knowledge
about the scientific evidence that underpin certain practices and women’s rights.
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At first we used the Reproductive Health Library as it contains many condensed Cochrane Reviews.
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Later, in some editions of the Reproductive Health Library there was an initiative called Better Births Initiative
and this initiative is based in South Africa.
I met the people implementing this and they gave permission to translate their material into Spanish.
Basically, these are 10 to 12 Cochrane Reviews that focus on improving care around childbirth.
This really helped us and it opened some doors to the public health services in Mexico,
to support hospitals with training for doctors and nurses.
And to train women so they could explain what they they want, what they need
and to insist on it with the clarity that it is the best care they can ask for.
We have had a lot of support from Gill Gyte, Sonja Henderson and Tina Lavender.
In 2009, Tina Lavender attended a national, international, conference we gave in the Perinatal Institute of Mexico.
And that supported our work in Mexico a lot.
Ten years of work have gone by and finally we are arriving at a great moment,
that is, we are working with specific contacts,
doctors who are dedicated to reforming medical attention for women in childbirth.
In the best case scenario,
we will be able to influence the guidelines for reproductive health because they are under review.
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