Complications during childbirth
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Blog by Kakaire Ayub Kirunda, a communication for development specialist with Makerere University School of Public Health. Sometime in December 2015 after duty at Busesa Health Centre IV in Iganga District in South Eastern Uganda, we prepared to return to Kampala. But before we could set off, an old man...
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By Chunmei Li Director of Worldwide Corporate Contributions Johnson & Johnson The baby’s name was Michael. His mother, Proshe, was one of the “lucky” ones able to get to a clinic to give birth to her child. But at the moment of birth, at the split second when the...
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Each month a team of six midwives visits 22 remote villages in the Central Plateau of Haiti. The days are long for these midwives, but they are often longer for the women who come to see them. Most of the pregnant women who seek the care of Midwives For Haiti's Mobile Prenatal...
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Each year, nearly 3 million children die in their first month of life, and an additional 2.6 million women suffer a stillbirth. Fatima was one of them.
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Today The Lancet publishes “Ending Preventable Stillbirth,” a series of articles calling for global efforts to greatly reduce fetal deaths that occur late in pregnancy or during labor. The series brings much-needed attention to a medical and societal problem that often goes ignored.
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