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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirths series by Sofia Säterskog My son was born dead. It was a warm summer’s day in Stockholm, July 2013. We were expecting our first baby and naming him August. We had celebrated Swedish Midsummer and were now just waiting for...
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This correspondence was originally published by The Lancet. By Freya J I Fowkes, Eliza Davidson, Kerryn A Moore, Rose McGready, Julie A Simpson The highly anticipated publication of the updated malaria maps in The Lancet shows that despite the substantial progress made since 2000, mortality gains have stalled and there...
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By Dr Nono Simelela Too many babies still die in pregnancy or childbirth. The numbers are heartbreaking: approximately one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, generally before 28 weeks, and 2.6million babies are stillborn, half of whom die in childbirth. Many of these deaths, especially the stillbirths, are preventable with...
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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group by Sue Steen RN MS While teaching nursing students in Uganda for many years, I, along with my friend and colleague, Lynn Zdechlik, witnessed many maternal and perinatal deaths. As nursing professors, and midwives, we felt burdened to educate nursing, midwifery, and...
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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group series by Shannon Maloney The placenta is a vital organ that develops during pregnancy to support the growth of the developing baby. Sometimes the placenta doesn’t work as well as it should. The placenta may struggle to deliver all the oxygen and...
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