Care of small and sick newborns
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HNN Team
Each year an estimated 1.9 million babies are stillborn after 28 weeks gestation, while 2.3 million live-born infants perish within the first 28 days of life. Low birthweight (LBW), defined as being below 2500g, has been used for a century as a marker of newborn vulnerability. However, LBW can be...
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Photo caption: Stable, at-risk babies receiving required care including KMC in a room adjacent to the postnatal ward labelled as the “Small Baby Ward” at the Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India. (Photo, courtesy, Dr. Sushma Nangia, Director Professor & Head Neonatology, Lady Hardinge Medical College,...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) launched its new guidelines for care of preterm or low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns on November 17, 2022 - World Prematurity Day. These recommendations follow a two-year process of systematic reviews and grading of evidence by a group of independent experts. A number of recommendations are new,...
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A Story of True Grit Salma, 33-year-old mother of two boys aged 6 and 8 years old, has had chronic kidney disease for the last two years. She was prescribed steroids and immunosuppressant therapy; she stopped on her own after some symptomatic improvement after she took them for only six...
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The Healthy Newborn Network is happy to announce the launch of the #HNNTools series to promote evidence-based implementation tools from our community that can help to advance maternal and newborn health worldwide. This series will highlight tools from partners that reflect the best information, practices, and guidance that can help...
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