Complications during childbirth
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2016 was an important year for newborn health. Some highlights included new research and guidelines emphasizing the importance of addressing perinatal deaths, managing infections and improving postnatal care, and counting every baby. Seven international professional associations endorsed a joint statement on kangaroo mother care to accelerate its use for small...
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Even though Nepal has made remarkable progress in reducing the number of child deaths in recent decades, an estimated 23,000 children still die each year before reaching their fifth birthday, and three out of five babies who die do so within twenty-eight days of birth, that is, during the newborn...
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Celebrating NeoNatalie, and the role she has played in helping save lives We are proud to announce that the 100,000th NeoNatalie has been born! She has helped train health workers across the globe, from the labor rooms of Haydom Hospital in Tanzania to the skills labs in India. We are...
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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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