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My #BornTooSoon Story – Ainsley Toto
This story is part of the My #BornTooSoon Stories Blog Series, you can read the rest of the blogs here. It was originally published here. (more…)
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Step Up for Breastfeeding: Adaptation of Kenya’s Baby Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI) to Madagascar
This blog was originally published on LinkedIn. Written by Mr. Joseph Gaithuma and Ms. Rachel Kavithe, Kavle Consulting, LLC. (more…)
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How is Kenya Galvanizing Stakeholders to Protect Breastfeeding during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
By: Constance Gathi & Brenda Ahoya, Kavle Consulting, LLC and Rose Wambu, Division of Nutrition, Ministry of Health, Kenya. This blog was originally posted on the Kavle Consulting website. The 2021 World Breastfeeding Week theme “Protect Breastfeeding, A Shared Responsibility” provides a call to action to build an enabling environment for...
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“We end up losing babies for reasons we can easily prevent.”
Insights 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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Virtual Capacity Building for Quality Improvement Teams & Coaches – A key step towards institutionalization of quality of care efforts at national, subnational and health facility level
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the availability of essential health services - especially services for pregnant women, newborns and children - that cannot be delayed or shifted to other settings. In many lower middle-income countries, maternal and child mortality remain high, and hard-won gains could falter without continued attention. Practitioners...
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