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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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Radha, a young mother in a remote village of Nepal’s Sankhuwasabha district, walks one hour to the marketplace. It is 11 am and Radha is tired and sweaty after carrying her sick baby, who has had a fever for two days, on her back. She stops at the first drug...
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Following the ENAP Research Design Workshop for Facility Based Metrics held in April 2016, ENAP metrics team and research partners have been working hard towards implementing the first step on the measurement improvement roadmap relating to facility-based testing of coverage indicators for selected interventions for Every Newborn Action Plan and...
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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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How should we measure inpatient care for small and sick newborns? Launch of online Every Newborn Action Plan survey on World Prematurity Day on the 17th November! TAKE THE SURVEY HERE (ENGLISH) Spanish French An estimated 2.7 million newborns die each year - many of these deaths occur in small and...
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