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Ethiopia
Followed by the virtual Quality Improvement(QI) workshop[1] held by UNICEF ESARO, WHO, UNFPA and the Ministry of Health in Kenya in June, a virtual training for Quality of Care(QoC) coaches was organized by health section of UNICEF Ethiopia country office(ECO) supported by UNICEF ESARO and in collaboration with Ministry of...
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HNN Team
This blog was originally published as a commentary in The Lancet Global Health here. An estimated 14.8 million babies are born preterm every year, before 37 completed weeks of gestation.1 Of these, around a million die because of direct complications,2 another 912 000 have mild to severe neurodevelopmental impairment, and many...
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HNN Team
In humanitarian settings, women, children and newborns are disproportionately affected. Statistics have shown that women and children are 14 times more likely to die than men in a disaster. Every day, an estimated 500 women and girls die from complications due to pregnancy and childbirth in fragile and humanitarian settings....
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In the recent Astana Declaration, countries around the world vowed to strengthen their primary health care systems as a step towards universal health coverage. Ensuring effective decision-making in low and middle-income countries’ public health systems has never been more important. But despite increased pressure on the performance of health managers...
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HNN Team
African continent has made the highest progress during MDG era on reducing under five child deaths. However, there are more than a million newborn babies dying every year . The largest numbers of these preventable deaths are due to prematurity related complications which can be managed effectively by Kangaroo Mother...
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