“Helping Babies Breathe” Awarded USAID’s Excellence Award

USAID’s 2011 Global Development Alliance Excellence Award presented to “Helping Babies Breathe (HBB)

Study shows newborn deaths higher in US than in Malaysia and Poland

 A study shows from1990 to 2009,  annual newborn deaths decreased from 4.6 million to 3.3 million but progress is too slow, particularly in Africa.  

Global study finds newborns struggle to survive

Nigeria, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Pakistan

 Fewer newborn babies are dying worldwide, but progress is too slow and Africa is being left behind, said a global study led by the World Health Organization

Nigeria: Reducing Country’s Soaring Newborn Deaths

Nigeria

Helping Babies Breathe in Nigeria

Emergency Birth Training Curbs Infant Mortality

Simple techniques, which initiate breathing in the newborn during the first minute of life, can reduce the newborn mortality rate by 50 percent.

Ghana: Maternal, Infant Mortality Will Minimize

Ghana

Ghana’s First Lady, Ernestina Naadu Mills has expressed optimism that death rates among women and infants will minimize drastically in the coming years as a result of the successful completion of the Neo-natal Survival Programme.

120 Midwives and Community Health Nurses trained under a Pilot Project

Ghana

The Neonatal Survival Pilot Project Programme was to recognise danger signs related to pregnancy and child birth as well as the newborns.

Basic training to reduce infant deaths can be cheap, effective

Basic newborn care and resuscitation interventions could be implemented in a cost-effective manner at health-care facilities in countries with limited financial resources, according to the findings of study by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers.

Hillary Clinton: USAID – Laerdal partnership; a breakthrough in saving more lives at birth

Secretary Clinton makes a call for groundbreaking ideas that can leapfrog existing products and conventional approaches.

Baby loss depression ‘lasts years’

The psychological impact of losing an unborn baby can last for several years, a British and US study has found.