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2016 was an important year for newborn health. Some highlights included new research and guidelines emphasizing the importance of addressing perinatal deaths, managing infections and improving postnatal care, and counting every baby. Seven international professional associations endorsed a joint statement on kangaroo mother care to accelerate its use for small...
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Even though Nepal has made remarkable progress in reducing the number of child deaths in recent decades, an estimated 23,000 children still die each year before reaching their fifth birthday, and three out of five babies who die do so within twenty-eight days of birth, that is, during the newborn...
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Originally posted on CMNHR. Blog written by Prof. Peter Waiswa (CMNHR Team Leader) and Dr Monica Okuga (CMNHR Coordinator). The 2016 Uganda Maternal and Newborn symposium held October 19 in Kampala came at a strategic time of one year after the end of the Millennium Development Goals and one year...
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This blog comes form a talk by Prof. David Serwadda at the 2nd Uganda Maternal-Newborn Health Symposium held in Kampala on October 19, 2016. The acclaimed professor's talk was transcribed by Kakaire Ayub Kirunda. The blog is originally published here. I don’t have slides but I will just talk. And...
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Originally published on IDEAS. IDEAS' Dr Tanya Marchant explores the results of the latest reports What changes have we seen in the delivery of life saving interventions and facility readiness for mothers and newborns in Ethiopia, Gombe State in Nigeria and the state of Uttar Pradesh in India? The latest...
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