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HNN Team
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Safe Motherhood Initiative and there is much to celebrate. Maternal deaths globally have decreased by 44 percent since 1990.
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HNN Team
The announcement of a pregnancy is, for most, a joyous experience to be celebrated within the community, the health care setting and the family. Much is invested in the health of the mother and the baby she is carrying. When that baby dies during pregnancy or during the birth, the...
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HNN Team
By Malika Ndlovu, a writer-poet, arts project manager and a mother to three sons and a stillborn daughter. Like an old river that separates one piece of earth from another, on arrival at its bank we are forced to contemplate the crossing…to face the fear of drowning, of being swallowed...
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HNN Team
2016 was an important year for newborn health. Some highlights included new research and guidelines emphasizing the importance of addressing perinatal deaths, managing infections and improving postnatal care, and counting every baby. Seven international professional associations endorsed a joint statement on kangaroo mother care to accelerate its use for small...
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HNN Team
Even though Nepal has made remarkable progress in reducing the number of child deaths in recent decades, an estimated 23,000 children still die each year before reaching their fifth birthday, and three out of five babies who die do so within twenty-eight days of birth, that is, during the newborn...
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