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Each year, nearly three million newborns die within the month of life with the leading causes of death during this period being preterm birth complications, complications during labour and delivery, and infection. This is a critical challenge in low-resource countries where 98% of all newborn deaths occur and where many...
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Originally posted on Seed Global Health Helping Babies Breathe (HBB),the resuscitation training program focused on saving babies in the first minutes of life, has drawn attention to newborn survival in resource-limited settings. Midwives, traditional birth attendants, nurses, physicians, and students have all learned how to give newborns their best chance...
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I met Rahma shortly after my arrival in Tanzania, joined by three colleagues as visiting faculty at a teaching hospital where we’d spend the next year together. We met at the cafeteria, all attempting to find shade under the canopy from the hot, Dar-es-Salaam sun. The four of us would...
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LGH ‘s objective is to help train and equip over one million birth attendants to become efficient lifesavers, and to help save over 400,000 more lives per year by 2020. We believe these objectives are fully achievable by supporting our alliance partners and their implementation programs. The following brief video...
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Originally published on Every Woman Every Child By Joy Marini, Executive Director, Global Community Impact I met Pipi when he was less than 2 years old, before he had earned his nickname, which means “playful” in English. He was already full of energy and the promise of a playful child....
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