Telling your story: Transforming care for small and sick newborns

Do you have a story to share about transforming care for small and sick newborns? Share your story here! This HNN blog series serves as a platform to share stories of success and challenges in caring for small and sick newborns in low-resource settings. Send a 300-600-word blog about your experience...

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Kangaroo Mother Care Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa

African continent has made the highest progress during MDG era on reducing under five child deaths. However, there are more than a million newborn babies dying every year . The largest numbers of these preventable deaths are due to prematurity related complications which can be managed effectively by Kangaroo Mother...

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Breastfeeding Well Begun is Breastfeeding Well Sustained

For most women, sustained breastfeeding can be achievable against the backdrop of constant family, social and health system support, specifically through the institutionalized practice of skin to skin care (SSC) at birth. When efforts and resources are optimized within health facilities to provide technical support for mothers in the crucial...

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Hugging the happiness curve

A ‘dead’ baby brought back to life — not with state-of-art technology, but a mother’s warm, loving hug. This could be straight out of a Bollywood film. But this heart-warming story is a fact. In 2010, Australian Katy Ogg gave birth to premature twins, Emily and Jamie, 14 weeks early....

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