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Beginning in 2000 with a ground-breaking grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) marked the first newborn health program of its kind, elevating Save the Children’s contribution to the area of newborn health. It is an unprecedented legacy, shared with partners around the globe. Save...
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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirths series by Ann O’Neill The doctor was silent as she continuously scanned my 39-week pregnant belly with the ultrasound probe, looking for my son’s heartbeat. Perhaps she had no words because the truth was unutterably horrible: There was no heartbeat. I...
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This article was originally published by World Bank. When I joined in 2019 as the Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), I couldn’t have imagined that just one year later I would be writing with such alarm for the health and well-being of the...
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This article was originally published by Sage Journals. The World Health Organization assigned 2020 as the year of the midwife. Midwifery is a commonly misunderstood profession. A frequent view of midwives is that they assist childbirth; even though it is a part of their role, professional midwives are skilled in...
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The Every Newborn Action Plan, endorsed by at the World Health Assembly in 2014, provides a road map of strategic actions for ending preventable newborn mortality and stillbirth. The coverage targets and milestones in 2014 set out a clear path to 2020 with the understanding that new interim targets would...
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