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It's a startling statistic. Every year, 70,000 women around the world basically bleed to death after childbirth. That averages out to nearly 200 deaths a day and makes postpartum hemorrhage a leading cause of maternal deaths. Now a new study points to a surprisingly simple and inexpensive solution: Basically, if the woman...
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Each year an estimated 1.9 million babies are stillborn after 28 weeks gestation, while 2.3 million live-born infants perish within the first 28 days of life. Low birthweight (LBW), defined as being below 2500g, has been used for a century as a marker of newborn vulnerability. However, LBW can be...
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Today, on International Day of the Midwife, we celebrate with three midwives who work in a hospital in Eastern Somalia’s Puntland region. Safia, Farhia and Bisharo have been working in Gardo General Hospital for a very long period and have seen the transformation of the hospital from a Health centre...
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This blog was originally posted by WHO. Wani Kumba Lahai, or Sister Wani as she is known, is a midwife, mother and grandmother. She is also a public health specialist who leads Sierra Leone’s nationwide malaria-in-pregnancy programme for the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. Her responsibilities include overseeing a community...
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This blog was originally posted on Gates Notes. She’s a midwife, teacher, and advocate—and she’s changing childbirth in Uganda. Officially, Uganda’s maternal mortality rate is double the global average. But because that number doesn’t count those who give birth at home—in a country where poverty, distance, stigma, and distrust are...
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