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Millions of adolescent girls and young women continue to begin childbearing early. The transition to becoming a mother for the first time is one of the most significant changes in a young woman’s life and brings many challenges and risks. Young mothers experience social and gender barriers that limit their...
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Quality and infrastructure upgrades improve maternal and child health in Sierra Leone This blog was originally published by USAID MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership program. The day after giving birth to a healthy baby, Fatima and her newborn returned to the Maternal and Child Health Post in Thompson Bay, an...
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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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On this World Pneumonia Day, we are reminded that that every 45 seconds, a child still dies from this disease - largest single infectious cause of death in children worldwide. That is more than 700,000 children under five every year. Pneumonia, combined with diarrhoea, accounts for 23% of all deaths...
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Written by Andrea García Charnichart, Emergency Nutrition Advisor at Save the Children Latin America and the Caribbean Breastfeeding: Barriers and Opportunities Breastfeeding saves lives. Not only because it provides protection and nutrition to newborns, but also because it guarantees food security through access to the quantity, quality, availability, and use...
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