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Tackling Maternal, Infant Mortality Through Increased Ambulance Service

February 22, 2015 Nigeria HNN Team

“The true heroes of struggle are the thousands of midwives, community health extension workers and village health workers working in many rural areas day in day out to save the lives of women, newborn and children.”

Join the live webcast for Putting Mothers and Babies First

February 19, 2015 HNN Team

Join us with The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for Putting Mothers and Babies First: Benefits across a lifetime – a panel discussion presented in collaboration with The GroundTruth Project and GlobalPost.

12 new convening partners join the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Conference 2015

February 17, 2015 HNN Team

Join the Secretariat of Health of Mexico and 15 other convening partners in Mexico City, October 18 to 21, for a landmark technical conference to discuss strategies for reaching every mother and newborn with high-quality health care.

Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development Announces Round 5 Call for Innovative Solutions to Prevent Infant & Maternal Deaths

February 9, 2015 HNN Team

Today, the Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development partners launched their fifth call for groundbreaking, sustainable innovations to save the lives of mothers and newborns in the hardest to reach corners of the world.

Ghana: Vice President’s wife concerned about newborn motality

January 27, 2015 Ghana HNN Team

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.

Philippines: DOH-JICA project increases facility-based deliveries in remote areas in CAR

January 23, 2015 Philippines HNN Team

Facility-based delivery in all project sites in Cordillera improved to an average of 86 percent in 2013, compared to the 79 % recorded in 2012, the first year of project implementation.

Bill Gates Will Try To Save 2 Million Children From Dying This Year — Here’s How

January 22, 2015 HNN Team

Bill and Melinda Gates argue — and research backs them up — that the world could save about 2 million newborns every year through a variety of low-cost interventions.

The Big Push: Call the Midwife in Bangladesh

January 20, 2015 Bangladesh HNN Team

Expertise from the UK’s TV hit Call the Midwife is helping people in Bangladesh to break the taboo and improve the health of mothers and babies.

Bangladesh ‘Golden Girls’ Guard Maternal Safety

January 19, 2015 Bangladesh HNN Team

In Bangladesh only 27 percent of pregnant women have access to highly trained birth attendants. These teen volunteers are trained to meet pregnant women in their communities and connect them to the most basic medical resources and information

Medical charity MSF opens Ebola clinic for pregnant women

January 11, 2015 Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone HNN Team

Women are particularly vulnerable to a disease spread through direct contact with infected people and with the corpses of victims, because women often care for sick family members, said MSF Field Coordinator, Esperanza Santos.