Strengthening Community-Based Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Systems Written by Ilana R. Siegal, MD, MA, Mamadou Berthé, PhD, and Modibo Soumaré, MD, from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group A 26-year-old woman arrived at an urban health center in Mali, West Africa, 40 weeks pregnant. A medical officer had referred her to the...
This post was originally published as a commentary in the Journal of Global Health here. Alongside the Sustainable Development Goals is a call for a “data revolution” that will “monitor progress, hold governments accountable, and foster sustainable development”. With recent technological advances, the amount and types of data available to...
"When I saw the very small baby, I had lost hope. Today, thanks to the know-how of the Kadiolo maternity health workers … I have a healthy child.” Fatoumata Kone Fatoumata Koné is 18-years-old and lives 12km from the nearest district hospital in Kadiolo, southern Mali. Pregnant for the first...
Stored on her desktop computer, Dr. Anita Zaidi keeps the photo of a grandmother holding her baby grandson at a community clinic on the shores of the Arabian Sea in Pakistan. For Zaidi, the image has a sad, but deeply meaningful provenance. It was taken in 2002 at a clinic...
Save the Children is calling upon governments, the international community and civil society to ensure that every mother and newborn living in crisis has access to high quality health care.