Quality, not just quantity: antenatal care in LMICs

On the surface, health records with completed rows of four antenatal care (ANC) visits for each woman, show great success. Indicators on antenatal care coverage – at least one visit and at least four visits – focused efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals on increasing the number of ANC...

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Acting on the Call: Everyone Needs to Play Their Part Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths within a Generation

Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths within a Generation This article was originally published on the Health Policy Plus Viewpoints blog. This past August, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ministers of health from 26 countries[1] took a major leap forward when they signed a ministerial declaration committing to end Preventable Maternal,...

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10,000 Happy Birthdays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhgozFMD6O4 The 10,000 Happy Birthdays project trains midwives in life saving skills in Malawi and Zambia, This film shows the remarkable results achieved by the Association of Malawian Midwives, The Midwifery Association of Zambia and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) after project start in 2014. Original post

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Affordable respiratory support for newborns

Although many premature newborns in high-income countries receive respiratory support in the form of bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) therapy, the majority of newborns in low-resource settings do not have access to such therapy. Over the past six years, Hadleigh Health Technologies LLC has designed, developed, and is now...

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