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Reposted from the USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) blog Of all the public health problems we face, why focus on clean clinics? The answers are simple. Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions and practices discourage people from seeking care at health facilities. This includes pregnant women, who...
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By Martin Owino Omedo Operations research manager, HealthRight International, Kitale, Kenya; and Global Health Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland “I have never known we have such a beautiful, equipped and clean maternity [maternity wing]. Actually, I am now planning to add two more children whom I will bring...
Read MoreThis July 18, Volunteer Youth Leaders for Health (VYLH) – Philippines, a national collaboration of youth leaders of youth organizations in universities and communities in the Philippines, will be launching the first National Social Media day for Folic Acid Awareness, #FolicAcidPH. The social media activity which coincides with the observance...
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Blog by Carlisle Levine and Sarah Roma. In 2000 the newborn mortality rate in Bangladesh was more than 39 per 1,000 live births, accounting for approximately half of all deaths for children under 5 years of age,[1] but few were paying attention. Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) program...
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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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