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A blog by USAID’s MaMoni Maternal and Newborn Care Strengthening Project (MaMoni MNCSP) in Bangladesh. “I was a little shocked and scared to see my baby so small and fragile. I did not think it would survive,” said Rina Khatun, mother of a newborn weighing only 1,400 grams at birth. The...
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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirth series by Dorte Hvidtjørn. At Aarhus University Hospital, in Aarhus, Denmark, there is a small shielded special space for bereaved parents and their babies who have died: the Unit for Perinatal Loss. I have worked there as a midwife for 10...
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By Elizabeth Bocaletti, Carolyn Boyce, Glendy De Leon, Rudo Kashiri, Ana Maria Us and Goldy Mazia for Save the Children. Photo credits: Save the Children. The national neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in Guatemala remains stagnant at 18 per 1,000 live births and represents 60% of the infant mortality. Preterm birth,...
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A blog by Steve Wall, Senior Advisor, Newborn Health at Save the Children KMC Works, but Timing Matters Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is one of the mainstays in our arsenal to save the lives of small babies. The KMC approach has been used across the world since first used and...
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Digitizing NBFG Web Designer Terms of Reference Background of the project In recent years, global maternal and newborn health experts have led the development of numerous technical and operational guidelines to advance the field of maternal and newborn health (MNH) in humanitarian settings, including the Newborn Health in Humanitarian Settings:...
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