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The impact of undernutrition on young girls has received special attention. In many parts of the world, poverty often interacts with sociocultural factors that make girls and adult women less favoured than men. Female infants and children commonly receive less medical care and also less and lower-quality food than male children. In a number of countries in the developing world, these discriminatory attitudes result not only in higher rates of protein- energy malnutrition among girls but also in an excess of mortality among them (Gómez 1993; United Nations Children’s Fund 1998, 1999). Undernourished girls are likely to. | Organization k National Aboriginal Health E-DUlietin October 2006 In this issue. Supporting midwives Important caregivers in the North By the Ajunnginiq Inuit Centre The Role of Metis Women in the Transmission of Traditional Knowledge By the Métis Centre Jidwah doh documentary has been selected for screening as part of the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival First Nations Midwifery Advisory Circle By the First Nations Centre How to find what you re looking for on the Canadian Health Network CHN Supporting midwives important caregivers in the North By the Ajunnginiq Inuit Centre Imagine a day when most Inuit women can give birth in their home communities. Right now many expectant mothers in the Arctic have to travel to larger centres or to southern Canada to give birth because the necessary health services don t exist in their own community or region. Many new mothers want to have their baby in their own community near family and friends not in a hospital far away. Inuit midwives and birthing centres in the North are helping to make that happen. Birthing centres like those in Inukjuak Salluit and Puvirnituq in Nunavik and Rankin Inlet Nunavut are allowing women to stay in their community to give birth. Midwives are well respected and highly skilled providing a wonderful service to women and families in the North. The Ajunnginiq Inuit Centre has made important connections with Inuit midwives and maternity care workers over the past two years. Several midwives from Nunavik attended the Aboriginal Women and Girls Health Roundtable in Ottawa in April 2005 hosted by the National Aboriginal Health Organization. There they told the Ajunnginiq Inuit Centre that there was a real need for midwives across the Arctic to have a strong support network. Seeing the possibilities the Ajunnginiq Inuit Centre jumped onboard to help midwives connect with colleagues in other Inuit regions and provide them with information and resources on midwifery infant