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This blog was originally published by MAMI Global Network on ENNOnline. The recently launched Lancet Small Vulnerable Newborns (SVN) Series comprised three hearty papers of evidence and analyses and a call for action to prevent babies being born dead, too early and too small. Figuring out the care of these ‘wee’ babies and their mothers...
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Originally published on BJOG: Vulnerable Newborns: multi-country analyses to advance measurement related to preterm births and small-for-gestational age: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (wiley.com) Written by: Prof. Aris Papageorghiou Each year an estimated 1.9 million babies are stillborn after 28 weeks gestation, while 2.3 million live-born infants...
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Today, on International Day of the Midwife, we celebrate with three midwives who work in a hospital in Eastern Somalia’s Puntland region. Safia, Farhia and Bisharo have been working in Gardo General Hospital for a very long period and have seen the transformation of the hospital from a Health centre...
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This blog was originally posted by WHO. Wani Kumba Lahai, or Sister Wani as she is known, is a midwife, mother and grandmother. She is also a public health specialist who leads Sierra Leone’s nationwide malaria-in-pregnancy programme for the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. Her responsibilities include overseeing a community...
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This blog was originally posted on Gates Notes. She’s a midwife, teacher, and advocate—and she’s changing childbirth in Uganda. Officially, Uganda’s maternal mortality rate is double the global average. But because that number doesn’t count those who give birth at home—in a country where poverty, distance, stigma, and distrust are...
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