Umbilical cord care
All Countries
HNN Team
One of the things that I love most about my job developing and introducing health technologies to address the health of women and children at PATH is the opportunity to work with people who are dedicated, smart, enthusiastic, and vibrant. The global health field seems to attract these kinds of optimistic,...
Read More
In Nepal, nearly 1 in 30 children die before reaching their first birthday, with 66% of those deaths occurring in the first one month of life, the neonatal period. Almost half of all newborn deaths are due to neonatal infections, many of which can result from exposure of the newborn’s...
Read More
UNICEF, World Health Organization, UNFPA, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, BMGF and USAID convened a joint workshop in Kathmandu. Eighty participants from 12 countries met to discuss how data systems can be improved to help end preventable maternal and newborn deaths.
Read More
HNN Team
ENAP Metrics “ENAP Research Implementation Planning Workshop for Facility-based Observational Study in Bangladesh, Nepal and Tanzania” took place from 5th to the 8th of December in White Sands Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Background ENAP metrics* team and research partners are continuing work towards implementing the first step on the...
Read More
HNN Team
Patricia Coffey, coauthor of Umbilical cord-care practices in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review, says that neonatal sepsis is responsible for more than 15 percent of neonatal deaths globally and is the third leading cause of death during the first month of life. A newly cut umbilical cord can...
Read More