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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirths series by Sara Nam More mothers are attending health facilities to deliver their babies, yet 2.6 million babies are stillborn every year, more than a third (42%) of those in Sub-Saharan Africa. What approaches can we apply to prevent stillbirths? Pregnancy...
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Who will step up during the next decade to implement and integrate life-saving interventions and services for newborns? Decision-making leading to the implementation of newborn health services and interventions within broader health programmes requires multiple actors and levels of involvement. It is only with the mobilisation of communities and civil society, health...
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In 2013, a service design team took on the challenge to develop a set of innovative tools to increase the demand and provision of quality maternity care at time of birth in facilities in Uganda and Nigeria. We started with a blank sheet of paper: using service design, any solution...
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Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths within a Generation This article was originally published on the Health Policy Plus Viewpoints blog. This past August, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ministers of health from 26 countries[1] took a major leap forward when they signed a ministerial declaration committing to end Preventable Maternal,...
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UNICEF, World Health Organization, UNFPA, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, BMGF and USAID convened a joint workshop in Kathmandu. Eighty participants from 12 countries met to discuss how data systems can be improved to help end preventable maternal and newborn deaths.
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