Salome Maswime

**Salome Maswime** likitan asibiti ne na Afirka ta Kudu kuma masanin kiwon lafiya na duniya. Ita likitan haihuwa ce kuma likitan mata kuma shugabar Aikin tiyata ta duniya a Jami'ar Cape Town .  Tana ba da shawara ga haƙƙin kiwon lafiya na mata, daidaito a cikin aikin tiyata da kula da uwa, da kuma samar da isasshen sabis na kiwon lafiya ga mutanen da ke nesa da marasa kulawa. Tana ba da shawara da shawarwari ga cibiyoyi da yawa, gami da Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya .  A cikin 2017, an girmama ta da Trailblazer da Young Achiever Award . Ita memba ce ta Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Afirka ta Kudu . 

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
Salome Maswime ta fito ne daga Limpopo . Mahaifinta farfesa ne a fannin tauhidi a Jami'ar Venda .  Ta kammala karatu a fannin kiwon lafiya daga Jami'ar KwaZulu-Natal a shekara ta 2005.  A lokacin da take aikin likita, ta ga uwaye biyu sun mutu a wani asibitin haihuwa a Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal .  Wannan gogewa ta yi wahayi zuwa gare ta don horar da ita a matsayin ƙwararren likitan haihuwa da likitan mata, saboda tana tsoron za ta "ci gaba da kasancewa wani ɓangare na matsalar da ke haifar da mutuwar uwa da yawa da ba ta dace ba".

Maswime ya shafe shekaru goma a Jami'ar Witwatersrand da ke Johannesberg da kuma asibitin Chris Hani Baragwanath da ke Soweto .  A wannan lokacin, ta fahimci cewa tana so ta ci gaba da karatunta na yau da kullun don fahimtar ainihin abubuwan da ke haifar da mummunan sakamako ga uwaye da jarirai a cikin haihuwa.

Ta sami matsayi na PhD wanda Kamfanin Carnegie na New York da Kwamitin Binciken Kiwon Lafiya na Afirka ta Kudu suka goyi bayan wanda ya ba ta damar neman hanyoyin inganta rayuwar uwaye da jarirai. Ta kammala karatun ta na Masters da PhD a Jami'ar Witwatersrand, inda ta nemi rage cututtukan uwa daga sashin da ya shafi zubar da jini a fadin asibitoci 15 a Gauteng.

## Ayyuka
Maswime memba ne na zartarwa na Kungiyar Bincike ta Afirka ta Kudu .  Ita memba ce ta Cibiyar Nazarin Kasuwanci ta Duniya.  Ta kasance malami kuma Darakta na Jami'ar Witwatersrand Obstetrics da Gynaecology Clinical Research Division kuma likitan haihuwa a Asibitin Chris Hani Baragwanath .  Tana aiki tare da mata masu haɗari sosai. Binciken da ta yi ya yi la'akari da kusan rasa uwa da mutuwa. Ta gano cewa mutuwar uwaye daga zubar da jini a lokacin sassan caesarean sun karu a Afirka ta Kudu. Ta kwatanta shirye-shiryen asibitoci don rikitarwa na tiyata a sassan caesarean a kudancin Gauteng . 

Maswime ta gano cewa Afirka tana da kidaya mutuwar uwaye 200,000 a kowace shekara; wanda shine kashi biyu bisa uku na mutuwar uwaye a duk duniya. A cikin 2017, Mail & Guardian ta sanya mata suna a matsayin daya daga cikin Top 200 na Afirka ta Kudu. Ta rubuta don The Conversation game da kara yawan sassan caesarean a Afirka.   Ta lashe kyautar Trailblazer da Young Achiever daga Jacob Zuma a shekarar 2017.ica..

A cikin 2018, ta ƙaddamar da Kungiyar Masana Kimiyya ta Afirka ta Kudu, ƙungiyar kwaleji don ƙwararrun ƙwararru da masu bincike da ke dawowa daga horo a ƙasashen waje wanda ke sauƙaƙa jagoranci, sadarwar, da bincike mai yawa. An ba ta lambar yabo ta Discovery Foundation Jami'ar Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital Fellowship a cikin 2018 .  Abokinta na tarayya ya ba ta damar yin bincike kan abubuwan da ke haifar da haihuwa a cikin mutanen da ke dauke da kwayar cutar HIV. Abokan hulɗa ya kai R2.1 miliyan. A lokacin da ta kammala karatun postdoctoral, Maswime ta sami kanta daya daga cikin mutane biyu kawai a tarurruka a Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya ko UNICEF. Ta kuma yi aiki a kan hanyar da take amfani da ita ga lafiyar kwakwalwa kamar yadda take da alaƙa da uwaye da yara. Tana da 'ya'ya biyu, Taurai (12), Farai (8).

## Manazarta