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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirths series by Lindsey Wimmer The significance of stillbirth around the world has been documented. Unfortunately, awareness of the issue in our society and commitment by organizations and health systems to addressing it has been scarce. While the majority of the...
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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirths series by Sofia Säterskog My son was born dead. It was a warm summer’s day in Stockholm, July 2013. We were expecting our first baby and naming him August. We had celebrated Swedish Midsummer and were now just waiting for...
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The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s MARCH Centre held a symposium to celebrate 30 years of maternal and newborn health (MNH) research at the School. Entitled the Questions Symposium, the event aimed to examine questions on the rationale, methods and impact of our past and present research, and...
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This blog was originally posted by The March Center. Babies born too soon Every year on the 17th November, we celebrate World Prematurity Day in recognition of preterm births - babies born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed. This year’s theme is Born Too Soon: Providing the right care,...
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This blog post was originally published by Scientific American It’s easy to forget the momentous strides that have been made in global health in the past few decades. The number of childhood deaths has more than halved since 1990 and there has been great progress in infectious diseases such as...
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