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“When you begin with basic nursing, that’s wonderful. That’s how babies’ lives can be saved,” says Christine Otai, a veteran nurse and Adara Development’s Global Health Manager. She smiles at the group of nurses moving around her, tending to babies and moving equipment. The sound of beeping in the background...
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An innovative community health programme providing financial incentives to health workers led to a 28% reduction in neonatal mortality in rural Uganda The World Health Organisation estimates that about one child in 13 born on the African continent dies before reaching the age of five. What makes this figure even...
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Standing in the small waiting room of a crowded neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Uganda, Yonah, a young nurse with relentless commitment and contagious passion, looks up at the board where newborns deaths have been tallied for the month of August. “This board is a reminder of the progress...
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It was a typical yet astonishing scene in Wandi village in northeastern Nigeria: a traditional barber known as a wanzam ceremonially shaved Abubakar Nafisatu’s hair on his seventh day of life, as is the custom there. Then the barber did something not so customary: He stressed to Abukabar’s mother the...
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African continent has made the highest progress during MDG era on reducing under five child deaths. However, there are more than a million newborn babies dying every year . The largest numbers of these preventable deaths are due to prematurity related complications which can be managed effectively by Kangaroo Mother...
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