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Even in Celestina Asante’s earliest memories, her mother had a hot temper. “Over the years, she would flare up, scream and beat me, and then I would usually go to bed crying,” she remembers. Well into adulthood – and becoming a mother of three herself – Asante still believed her...
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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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Featured image above: Health Extension Worker Misaye Asmamaw (center) visits Addise Yaregale and her son, Saleamelak, (right) at home. (Photos courtesy of Karen Kasmauski/MCSP) “It was a challenge and a long journey to get to the point we are right now,” said 30-year-old Misaye Asmamaw. She’s speaking of her years...
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Who will step up during the next decade to implement and integrate life-saving interventions and services for newborns? Decision-making leading to the implementation of newborn health services and interventions within broader health programmes requires multiple actors and levels of involvement. It is only with the mobilisation of communities and civil society, health...
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This article is a cross post from MCSP. Sofala Province, Mozambique – It was midafternoon when 21-year-old Rosita Filipe arrived at Muxungué Rural Hospital. Pregnant for the first time, her obstructed labor had ceased to progress at Muligue Health Facility, nearly 30 miles away. She was transferred to the hospital...
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