Breastfeeding and feeding of small and sick newborns
All Countries
Laerdal Global Health (LGH) is committed to reducing the staggering rates of newborn morbidity and mortality in low resource settings through hands on, simulation-based training, highly affordably tools, locally owned implementation and broad endorsement. Helping Babies Breathe, developed by AAP in collaboration with Laerdal Global Health and launched in 2009,...
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HNN Team
9 MAY 2016 | GENEVA/NEW YORK - A new report by WHO, UNICEF, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) reveals the status of national laws to protect and promote breastfeeding. Of the 194 countries analysed in the report, 135 have in place some form of legal measure related...
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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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HNN Team
Writen by: Professor Mary J Renfrew RM PhD FRSE Director, Mother and Infant Research Unit University of Dundee UK m.renfrew@dundee.ac.uk The Lancet Series on Breastfeeding has clearly laid out the direction of travel for policy and practice to improve breastfeeding rates worldwide (Victora et al 2016, Rollins et al 2016)....
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The Lancet Breastfeeding Series, launched January 29th 2016, is the first of its kind to evaluate global breastfeeding levels, trends and inequalities, as well as the short- and long-term benefits for both mother and child. The Series shows that about 820,000 child deaths could be prevented annually (about 13 percent...
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