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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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Students from Rice University in Texas developed a low cost technology which helps small and sick babies breathe. Using a shoe box and an aquarium pump, these students created the Pumani bCPAP prototype that, at 1/10 of the traditional CPAP cost, is now providing life saving technology in many hospitals...
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After years of silence, hundreds of Croatian women have been speaking publicly about the traumatic experiences they suffered during childbirth in the country’s hospitals, putting obstetric violence on the political agenda. -- When Croatian MP Ivana Nincevic Lesandric spoke out about her own painful experience of a cervical scrape carried...
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In a country like Haiti, where 60% of women deliver at home, it is not uncommon that women find themselves in very risky situations if something starts to go wrong during labor or delivery. In rural areas – the risk is even higher as villages are spread across the mountainous...
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Je suis devenue infirmière car ma grand-mère était infirmière, mes sœurs sont infirmières et l’une de mes tantes est infirmière. » a indiqué Neema Kitima, accoucheuse principale à l’hôpital Bahira de la ville de Bukavu en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Bien que 80% des naissances en RDC surviennent dans...
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