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Photo caption: Stable, at-risk babies receiving required care including KMC in a room adjacent to the postnatal ward labelled as the “Small Baby Ward” at the Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India. (Photo, courtesy, Dr. Sushma Nangia, Director Professor & Head Neonatology, Lady Hardinge Medical College,...
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Written by Andrea García Charnichart, Emergency Nutrition Advisor at Save the Children Latin America and the Caribbean Breastfeeding: Barriers and Opportunities Breastfeeding saves lives. Not only because it provides protection and nutrition to newborns, but also because it guarantees food security through access to the quantity, quality, availability, and use...
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Aziza Ramadhani Kitwiku, 29, has a primary school education and is a housewife and mother of three children in Tanzania. Below, she shares the different experiences of delivering and caring for her first two children compared to her third child, who is now seven-months-old and was conceived after she joined...
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The Healthy Newborn Network is happy to announce the launch of the #HNNTools series to promote evidence-based implementation tools from our community that can help to advance maternal and newborn health worldwide. This series will highlight tools from partners that reflect the best information, practices, and guidance that can help...
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By Elizabeth Bocaletti, Carolyn Boyce, Glendy De Leon, Rudo Kashiri, Ana Maria Us and Goldy Mazia for Save the Children. Photo credits: Save the Children. The national neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in Guatemala remains stagnant at 18 per 1,000 live births and represents 60% of the infant mortality. Preterm birth,...
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