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Lady KZ performing Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) at six weeks. This blog was originally posted on USAID's MOMENTUM blog. Lady KZ was seven months along in her pregnancy when she knew something wasn’t right. The 20-year-old and her husband live in Bettié, a town in the southeast corner of...
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Quality and infrastructure upgrades improve maternal and child health in Sierra Leone This blog was originally published by USAID MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership program. The day after giving birth to a healthy baby, Fatima and her newborn returned to the Maternal and Child Health Post in Thompson Bay, an...
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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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This story was originally written by USAID’s MaMoni Maternal and Newborn Care Strengthening Project. Sraboni Rani Majumder is a Family Welfare Visitor (FWV) in a Madaripur District, Bangladesh Union Health and Family Welfare Center (UH&FWC), which serves a population of around 12,000 people. Since she joined the health center in...
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A blog by USAID’s MaMoni Maternal and Newborn Care Strengthening Project (MaMoni MNCSP) in Bangladesh. “I was a little shocked and scared to see my baby so small and fragile. I did not think it would survive,” said Rina Khatun, mother of a newborn weighing only 1,400 grams at birth. The...
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