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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirths series by Paula Quigley Nigeria has the second highest rate of stillbirths in the world at 42.9 per 1,000 total births as well as the second highest absolute number of stillbirths, estimated at 314,000 in 2015.[i] While the whole country faces...
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Delegates from 10 countries will gather in Blantyre, Malawi, October 24–26 to discuss how to accelerate the adoption of life-saving care for premature babies, especially increasing the adoption of kangaroo mother care, nutrition, and thermal care interventions. The Government of Malawi and other partners are hosting the fourth meeting of the Kangaroo Mother Care Acceleration Partnership (KAP). Participants will come from six “priority countries” chosen because of their high rates of premature birth and strong political will to take action. For the past three years, newborn health experts from these countries have been sharing research, program experience, and innovations and built a professional network through meetings, site visits, and an online platform. Delegates from four additional countries whose kangaroo mother care acceleration plans have recently gained momentum, are also attending.
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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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