Newborn Health in Emergencies
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HNN Team
The day of birth is the riskiest for women and their babies, with nearly half of maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths taking place during this period. Many of these deaths are preventable, even in humanitarian settings, where nearly half of these deaths occur. Participants at the Women Deliver conference,...
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HNN Team
This post originally appeared on Medecins Sans Frontieres'/Doctors Without Borders' website here. Nearly two years after they began crossing into Bangladesh after fleeing horrific violence and persecution in Myanmar, more than 700,000 Rohingya people are still trapped in precarious living conditions in refugee camps near the border. Denied access to...
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HNN Team
In Uganda, the percentage of newborn deaths for all under-five deaths sits around 41%, and the newborn mortality rate is 20 deaths per 1,000 live births. 27% of neonatal deaths in Uganda in 2017 were due to preterm birth complications. Uganda’s large refugee population is a major contributor to these...
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HNN Team
Since 1991, Somalis have left their country in successive waves, fleeing civil conflict, drought, and related famines. In 2017, the Dadaab Refugee Complex in Eastern Kenya, was comprised of five separate camps hosting 239,549 refugees, with Somalis making up 96% of the refugee population.[1] Health care services in Dadaab camps are overseen by...
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HNN Team
In humanitarian settings, women, children and newborns are disproportionately affected. Statistics have shown that women and children are 14 times more likely to die than men in a disaster. Every day, an estimated 500 women and girls die from complications due to pregnancy and childbirth in fragile and humanitarian settings....
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