Resources
Producing a topical medicine for cord care in low- and middle-income countries - local/regional production as the optimal way to increase the availability of quality, affordable medicine to reduce neonatal mortality.
Chlorhexidine Technical Brief: Umbilical Cord Cleansing Saves Newborn Lives - French language version.
South Africa is one of the ten countries (from 193) that have shown a reversal in progress for the MDG to reduce under-5 mortality rates by 2015.
This study demonstrates the safety of the midwifery-led birth center model of collaborative care as well as continued low obstetric intervention rates, similar to previous studies of birth center care.
