Share the experiences and accomplishments of the female primary health care and social relations in their coastal plains community of Yemen. These twenty women have transformed a dormant facility into a thriving health center, which includes former social outcasts and slaves - as both health care recipients and health care providers. The documentary features the murshidat speaking out on their changing roles, identities and aspirations as Muslim women. Follow the women on their home visits and in the maternal and Child Health Center where they provide prenatal care, do routine deliveries, immunizations, infant growth monitoring and family planning.
Delores M. Walters, Ph.D.. in Anthropology, collaborated with the murshidat in making this video, which is based on research she has conducted in Yemen since the 1980's. (English voice-over)
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