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A blog by Steve Wall, Senior Advisor, Newborn Health at Save the Children KMC Works, but Timing Matters Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is one of the mainstays in our arsenal to save the lives of small babies. The KMC approach has been used across the world since first used and...
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A blog by Meaza Getachew, Global Policy and Advocacy Manager at 1,000 Days and Miski Abdi, Nutrition Policy and Advocacy Advisor at Save the Children UK. We are at the final leg of the race to the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit on the 7th and 8th of December. The...
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This blog was originally published by Save the Children. Displacement Binta was displaced by the insurgency in Borno State of Nigeria, where her community was attacked and she was unable to sustain the life she had built. Because of the insurgency, access to medicines have been disrupted and other basic needs...
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Today is International Day of the Midwife (IDM). It is a day to celebrate and to reflect on the impact midwives and midwifery can make on reducing maternal and newborn mortality, morbidity, stillbirths and on improving quality care for women and newborns. It is also a time to consider how...
Read MoreBy the time you finish reading this blog, at least one newborn child will die in Bangladesh due to prematurity. The United Nations (UN)[1] reported an estimated 2.4 million deaths in 2019, within the first four weeks after birth, or the neonatal period. Globally, 6,700 newborns die every day; in...
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