Essential newborn care
All Countries
HNN Team
The global public health agenda spotlight is increasingly focused on reducing preventable newborn deaths. Skilled care at birth and delivery in a health facility equipped with life-saving medical technologies is a clear path to prevention. However, many women continue to deliver at home, impeded by lack of access to a...
Read More
HNN Team
On World Prematurity Day, Every Preemie—SCALE joins the global community in highlighting the importance of “Working together: partnering with families in the care of small and sick newborns”. Each year 1 in 10 babies around the world are born preterm, or before 37 weeks gestation, and many others have life-threatening...
Read More
HNN Team
Standing in the small waiting room of a crowded neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Uganda, Yonah, a young nurse with relentless commitment and contagious passion, looks up at the board where newborns deaths have been tallied for the month of August. “This board is a reminder of the progress...
Read More
HNN Team
Victor Hugo said, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” That time has come for a life-saving approach to looking after babies who are born too soon called kangaroo mother care. In Kenya, the moment as arrived to accelerate its scale-up for the 200,000 babies...
Read More
HNN Team
In Pakistan, one baby in every 22 dies during its first month of life. This is the world’s highest rate of newborn mortality and a distressing statistic to which stillborn babies must be added. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides maternal and child healthcare services in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near...
Read More