Kangaroo Mother Care
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Immaculate Nakito gave birth prematurely to her daughter at a primary health center near her home in Uganda. After just five and a half months gestation, baby Judith weighed less than two pounds. Recognizing that Judith needed specialized care to survive, her father took her by boda boda in the...
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Prematurity is one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality in Kenya. Approximately 188,000 babies in Kenya are born too soon. Health workforce shortage, limited skills and lack of infrastructure including appropriate equipment, commodities and space* pose challenges to managing preterm births. Where equipment is available, it is often inadequate...
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A recent study on the measurement of service readiness for providing inpatient care of small and sick newborns puts the spotlight on improving monitoring systems, quality of care and investments in health systems scale-up to end preventable newborn death and disability, as discussed in Part 2 in a series of...
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Papua New Guinea has 240,000 babies born each year and 6,000 die before completing the first month of life due to prematurity and low birth weight. The government and partners, including UNICEF and WHO, are supporting scale-up of evidence based interventions of Early Essential Newborn Care and Kangaroo Care. While...
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For Reshman Khatoon, getting professional medical treatment is a luxury. A 25-year-old stay-at-home mother from a small village in Khairpur District, Pakistan, she and her three children live off her husband’s meager daily wages. Although he works long, hard hours, the money he earns is barely enough to support them....
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