
Providing Essential Maternal and Newborn Care in Yemen’s Prolonged Crisis: A profile of BFD Yemen’s work supported by UNFPA
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Read MoreThe World Health Organization (WHO) launched its new guidelines for care of preterm or low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns on November 17, 2022 - World Prematurity Day. These recommendations follow a two-year process of systematic reviews and grading of evidence by a group of independent experts. A number of recommendations are new,...
Read MoreOn this World Pneumonia Day, we are reminded that that every 45 seconds, a child still dies from this disease - largest single infectious cause of death in children worldwide. That is more than 700,000 children under five every year. Pneumonia, combined with diarrhoea, accounts for 23% of all deaths...
Read MoreA Story of True Grit Salma, 33-year-old mother of two boys aged 6 and 8 years old, has had chronic kidney disease for the last two years. She was prescribed steroids and immunosuppressant therapy; she stopped on her own after some symptomatic improvement after she took them for only six...
Read MoreStrengthening Community-Based Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Systems Written by Ilana R. Siegal, MD, MA, Mamadou Berthé, PhD, and Modibo Soumaré, MD, from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group A 26-year-old woman arrived at an urban health center in Mali, West Africa, 40 weeks pregnant. A medical officer had referred her to the...
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