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Papua New Guinea has 240,000 babies born each year and 6,000 die before completing the first month of life due to prematurity and low birth weight. The government and partners, including UNICEF and WHO, are supporting scale-up of evidence based interventions of Early Essential Newborn Care and Kangaroo Care. While...
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This piece was originally published on MamaYe. 2.6 million babies worldwide are stillborn each year. The majority of these deaths are preventable. Reducing stillbirths presents a solid case for economic investment with as much as a 10 to 25 times return on investment in economic and social benefits. Yet this...
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UNICEF, World Health Organization, UNFPA, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, BMGF and USAID convened a joint workshop in Kathmandu. Eighty participants from 12 countries met to discuss how data systems can be improved to help end preventable maternal and newborn deaths.
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Originally published on WHO When Bandana Das, a midwife in India, washes her hands it is not simply routine, it is a critical step in reducing infection and saving the lives of mothers and newborns. "I have seen mothers discharged from the health facility and then come back to the...
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Despite promising progress, the Eastern and Southern Africa Region is home to some of the countries with the highest national newborn mortality rates in the world, with Angola having 59 and Somalia 39 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births. Overall, the region has a maternal mortality ratio of 417 per...
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