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My first contact with Save the Children was in 2008, just after I obtained my fellowship in pediatrics from the National Post-Graduate Medical College of Nigeria. I was in Katsina – and one of only two pediatricians in that city – when Save the Children invited me for training on...
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During the past 30 years, Monsurat Folake Ahmed-Ogundipe has worked as a Community Health Extension Worker, a nurse, and a midwife, before finally bagging a BSc in Nursing Education. Currently she works as a health education officer in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. As a health care educator,...
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By Dr Abimbola Williams, Newborn and Child Survival, Save the Children Nigeria On November 17, 2016, Nigeria marked World Prematurity Day with the release of the Nigeria Every Newborn Action Plan (NiENAP). This document, the culmination of more than two years of work, began with a systematic analysis of bottlenecks and...
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Although many premature newborns in high-income countries receive respiratory support in the form of bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) therapy, the majority of newborns in low-resource settings do not have access to such therapy. Over the past six years, Hadleigh Health Technologies LLC has designed, developed, and is now...
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Adeyemo Abass Kola is a winner of the International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award 2016, for his work for newborns in Nigeria’s Zamfara state. As a nurse in a Doctors without Borders hospital, Kola treats newborns suffering from lead poisoning, birth asphyxia, hypothermia, malnutrition, and infections. Despite the challenges, Kola is...
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