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HNN Team
There must be excitement in the country. The preliminary results of the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) 2016 were released March 14. Bits of good news, some not so good news, and bad news for maternal, newborn and child health in the country. As shown in the table below,...
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HNN Team
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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HNN Team
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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HNN Team
Originally published on Future Health Systems. By Ayub Kakaire, FHS PIRU Officer, Uganda. How sustainable is your intervention? If someone wanted to replicate it, how easy would it be? What happens when the study ends? Will the communities be able to continue with this initiative after the implementers have gone?...
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Celebrating NeoNatalie, and the role she has played in helping save lives We are proud to announce that the 100,000th NeoNatalie has been born! She has helped train health workers across the globe, from the labor rooms of Haydom Hospital in Tanzania to the skills labs in India. We are...
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