Monitoring & evaluation
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HNN Team
It has been a dynamic year for mortality data, with the release of multiple, county-level mortality datasets in the past twelve months. However, in updating the Newborn Numbers, it is clear the data trends for maternal and newborn mortality, including stillbirths, show stagnated progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals...
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HNN Team
On this World Pneumonia Day, we are reminded that that every 45 seconds, a child still dies from this disease - largest single infectious cause of death in children worldwide. That is more than 700,000 children under five every year. Pneumonia, combined with diarrhoea, accounts for 23% of all deaths...
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By the time you finish reading this blog, 71 newborns will have died globally, including 15 in India alone. Yet India has made major strides in reducing deaths of babies within the first 28 days of life. Recent reports suggest that more than eight in ten women deliver in health...
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HNN Team
By: Sharmin Akter, Cory Cerritelli, Aisha Hussain, and Joseph Johnson In the crowded urban slum of Hazaribag, Boubazar Balur Maath (in photo above) is a pregnant woman that looks onward into the sprawl in front of her. A wild dog is walking among the garbage looking for food. We can...
Read MoreThis blog was originally published by the Lancet. The disruptive effects of pandemics on the delivery of health services is increasingly recognised as a global threat to maternal and child health. 1 The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the need to not only rapidly develop health-care innovations but to also...
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