“The basics matter…let us make sure that every child gets skin-to-skin contact from birth to Kangaroo Mother Care.”

A Q&A with UNICEF’s Fatima Gohar on KMC in humanitarian settings and emergencies. Photo caption: A trainee, left, practices proper newborn placement on Fatima Gohar (right) during a recent training on Kangaroo Mother Care in Somalia. World Prematurity Day (WPD) on 17 November raises awareness of the challenges and burden of...

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The state of maternal and newborn health in conflict affected contexts

Photo Caption: ©International Rescue Committee; Photo: KC Nwakalor for the IRC and it is a photo of a mother and her newborn in Borno, Nigeria The state of maternal and newborn health serves as an important measure of a health system’s strength as it showcases both access to quality health care...

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Dissemination of Newborn Humanitarian Guide in Dadaab, Garissa County, Kenya

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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