Need help with Culture Project - Zimbabwe

[luv2ride]

Hello everyone,

I am in the OB/Pediatric semester of Nsg. and part of our assignment is doing a culture board on Zimbabwe with regards to Prenatal care, birth process, Infant care, Contraception, child rearing etc. I am hoping that someone may have some information on specific culural beliefs and practices in that part of the world and would be kind enough to share some common practices or rituals.

Are there any good websites and may provide more specific info? Thanks in advance for any help.

[jadu1106]

hello luv2ride:

these are a few articles i was able to find online regarding your culture project, i am sure there are more, but from what i see, these articles have a lot of information that you may be requesting for. i just googled childbirth in zimbabwe and prenatal care/infant care in zimbabwe...

http://www.fhi.org/en/rh/pubs/wsp/fctshts/zimbabwe1.htm

an article on prenatal care/infant care in zimbabwe: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2866114

article: http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/mnpi/zimbabwe_mnpi.pdf

jadu1106

[adnama]

Hey!! I am actually graduating from nursing school in December and then heading to Africa Febraury 1 to do some volunteer nursing there for 6 weeks. I am going to the country right beside Zimbabwe called Zambia. I am going through an organization called African Impact. They have an awesome website that may have some of the info. you are looking for on it. If not then I know there is other websites that you can link to through this one. It is www.africanimpact.com. Hope this helps!!!!