
Providing Essential Maternal and Newborn Care in Yemen’s Prolonged Crisis: A profile of BFD Yemen’s work supported by UNFPA
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Read MoreNewborn Health in Emergencies
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Read MoreGlobally, 2.4 million babies die during their first month of life each year (HNN). Neonatal mortality is highest in low-income settings, fragile states, and countries that have recently experienced a humanitarian crisis, where risks of complications and infections are high. In 2022, 38% of newborn deaths and 38% of stillbirths...
Read MoreThis blog was originally published by Save the Children. Displacement Binta was displaced by the insurgency in Borno State of Nigeria, where her community was attacked and she was unable to sustain the life she had built. Because of the insurgency, access to medicines have been disrupted and other basic needs...
Read MoreBy HRH Princess Sarah Zeid, WFP Special Advisor, Maternal & Child Health and Nutrition, UNHCR Patron for Maternal and Newborn Health, and Elaine Scudder, IAWG Senior Advisor, Maternal and Newborn Health. ‘’No woman, child or adolescent should face a greater risk of preventable death because of where they live or...
Read MoreInsights from Annes Mboya, nurse-midwife at Kakuma Refugee Camp By Annes Mboya, Nurse-Midwife, IRC; Andrea Edman, Advocacy & Communications Specialist, IAWG Newborn Initiative When a woman comes to the hospital walking, they should go home walking. If they came to the hospital with a baby in their tummy that was...
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