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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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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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