Webinar: Helping Babies Breathe catalyzing Helping Babies Survive
Ethiopia, Nigeria, India
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This webinar will analyze lessons learned from a Global Development Alliance and its future plans.
Workshop on ‘Helping Babies Breathe’ held at LUMHS
Pakistan
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The goal of the HBB initiative is to have at least one person skilled in neonatal resuscitation at the birth of every child.
Ghana: Vice President’s wife concerned about newborn motality
Ghana
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The wife of the Vice President, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur, has expressed concern about the increasing newborn mortality rate (NMR) in the country and called for concerted efforts by the general public to deal with the issue.
Johnson & Johnson Partners with Save the Children to Help Millions of Children over the Next 3 Years
Malawi, Uganda
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The multi-million dollar, multi-year commitment will cover core mission support; program support to improve newborn survival; local activation; and gift-in-kind services.
Mercy Ships and Laerdal – Helping Babies Breathe Easier in Congo
Congo
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“The midwives who deliver the babies did not have direct access to emergency medication, proper resuscitation methods or doctors. This needed to change.”
MamaNatalie Birth Simulator Provides ‘Realistic And Affordable Training In Maternal And Newborn Care’
Tanzania, United Republic of
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The Helping Babies Breathe training program in Tanzania has been using MamaNatalie since 2010, and has reduced newborn deaths linked to asphyxia by 47 percent, ABC News reported.
Bangladesh: US support for newborn care
Bangladesh
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US Ambassador Dan Mozena visits Bangabandu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and learns more about birth asphyxia and the Helping Babies Breathe initiative.
Ending infant mortality worldwide requires that birth attendants address birth asphyxia
Tanzania, United Republic of, Kenya
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The ICM meeting dedicated a core session to HBB, including providing attendees hands-on HBB introductory training and a related symposium that debated why little progress has been made in combating infant mortality in Africa.
Program reduces newborn deaths in India
India
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Two years after the start of the HBB program, researchers evaluated its effectiveness and found that infant mortality dropped 30 per cent in areas of India where it was used.??
Breathing program may help save newborns’ lives
Tanzania, United Republic of
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The researchers found newborn deaths dropped from 13 per 1,000 babies to seven per 1,000 once Helping Babies Breathe was implemented. The rate of stillbirth fell from 19 per 1,000 babies before to just over 14 per 1,000 after.