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Somalia
HNN Team
By Shyam Sharan Pathak and Fatima Gohar With a newborn mortality rate of 38.5 per 1,000 live births and stillbirth rate 35.5 per 1,000 total births respectively, Somalia is one of the countries with the poorest newborn health indicators globally. To help address the situation, the Ministry of Health and...
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HNN Team
Since 1991, Somalis have left their country in successive waves, fleeing civil conflict, drought, and related famines. In 2017, the Dadaab Refugee Complex in Eastern Kenya, was comprised of five separate camps hosting 239,549 refugees, with Somalis making up 96% of the refugee population.[1] Health care services in Dadaab camps are overseen by...
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HNN Team
The role of midwives is essential to quality care before, during and after pregnancy.
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