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My first contact with Save the Children was in 2008, just after I obtained my fellowship in pediatrics from the National Post-Graduate Medical College of Nigeria. I was in Katsina – and one of only two pediatricians in that city – when Save the Children invited me for training on...
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By Dr Mayank Priyadarshi, Dr Rajesh Mehta and Dr Ashok Deorari Globally, of the estimated 5.9 million under-5 deaths in 2015, almost 1 million occurred on the first day and nearly 2 million during the first week, highlighting the need for coverage of good-quality care for newborns (1). There has been...
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Stillbirths, pregnancy losses that happen after 20 weeks’ gestation, affect nearly 24,000 families in the United States each year. For every baby who dies of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), approximately 10 babies are stillborn. Despite the frequency of these tragic losses, stillbirth receives little attention, and families often feel...
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Originally posted on Patientsafetyfirst This blog is my response to this article, by Prof Soo Downe. The blog states that there is ‘little controversy about the benefits of normal physiological birth for healthy mothers and babies’. In fact, there are controversies around some of the claims that are promoted about the...
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By: Joy Marini, MS, PA-C, and Winnie Mwebesa, MD. Originally posted on Global Citizen "I always imagine that the babies might become someone important in life, or do something great." Hours away from bustling Kampala, in a rural district of central Uganda, the sound of a hungry newborn crying echoes...
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