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This piece was originally published on Makerere University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Newborns and Child Health. My daily work involves moving around six hospitals in East-central Uganda implementing data strengthening interventions to increase capture and quantifying maternal and newborn indicators. Critical to my work is capturing data on babies...
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“We feel so proud and happy about what we have become. We manage our babies very well and discharge them alive. We no longer run after the doctors except when babies present with advanced complications,” says Sr Gorret Mukhaye, a registered midwife at Kiryandongo Hospital in the Kiryandongo District of...
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Improving the quality of care that women experience during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period has become a major global priority. Achieving good quality care requires not only clinical improvements, but also a person-centered approach that takes into account women’s and health workers’ needs and perspectives. In 2016, the World...
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The days and weeks that follow birth are also vitally important. Home visitation has been proposed as a way to achieve better outcomes during the postnatal period.
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Loss to follow-up (LTFU) has been widely known to be a problem of clinical settings most especially in HIV/AIDS interventions such as Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission and other related treatment programmes. However it is also becoming a serious concern in maternal and newborn healthcare (MNH). Reducing maternal and...
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