Mortality audit
All Countries
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
Strengthening Community-Based Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Systems Written by Ilana R. Siegal, MD, MA, Mamadou Berthé, PhD, and Modibo Soumaré, MD, from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group A 26-year-old woman arrived at an urban health center in Mali, West Africa, 40 weeks pregnant. A medical officer had referred her to the...
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HNN Team
A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirths series by Dr. Tedbabe Degefie Hailegebriel Every Newborn Action Plan 2014, called for “Counting Every Newborn” by investing in birth and death registration coverage and quality, promoting recording of every birth, live or stillbirth, and recording stillbirths and neonatal deaths and...
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HNN Team
When Kawuma’s wife went into labour in the wee hours of that night on a date which he doesn’t recall four years ago, his option was to rush her to the nearest government Health Centre IV which serves his Kisenyi slum in Kampala. However, the gate man told him there...
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HNN Team
“Every death counts. The death of a mother or a newborn is not just a tragedy for the family but also an indicator of an egregious failure of the health system, especially because many of these tragic deaths are preventable.” (Saifuddin Ahmed and Judith Fullerton in the editorial of...
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