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Originally published on Future Health Systems. By Ayub Kakaire, FHS PIRU Officer, Uganda. How sustainable is your intervention? If someone wanted to replicate it, how easy would it be? What happens when the study ends? Will the communities be able to continue with this initiative after the implementers have gone?...
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This blog comes form a talk by Prof. David Serwadda at the 2nd Uganda Maternal-Newborn Health Symposium held in Kampala on October 19, 2016. The acclaimed professor's talk was transcribed by Kakaire Ayub Kirunda. The blog is originally published here. I don’t have slides but I will just talk. And...
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In June 2016, the USAID-funded Every Preemie—SCALE project, a consortium of Project Concern International (PCI), Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) and American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), finalized and launched Antenatal Corticosteroids for Women at Risk of Imminent Preterm Birth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia,...
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Blog By Associate Professor Peter Waiswa, the team leader Makerere University Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health Research. Originally published on CMNHR. This sad state of affairs has bothered me for a long time but at last I have gathered the courage to write about it. I think this will set...
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Biferamunda Mwajuma, the only midwife at the Mukathi Health Center III, Kasese district, works seven days a week delivering up to 12 babies per month. “When I am off duty, the nurses have to refer mothers to other health facilities, especially if they anticipate complications,” she says. One of Mwajuma’s...
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