Mothers in Nigeria participate in biannual event for maternal and child health
Mothers in Nigeria participate in a week’s worth of activities that complement routine health services with a package of interventions proven to boost their own health and help their babies survive and thrive.?
Prenatal Care Goes Mobile in Uganda
In Uganda, three students have invented a smartphone application that can measure the heartbeat of a fetus.
US infant mortality rate drops only a little
Birth defects and low birth weight were the two leading causes of newborn death, the survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found.
Partnerships at Base of Tanzania’s Maternal Health and Early Child Care Text Messaging Service Successful First Year
To date, this service has sent over 21 million messages to pregnant women, mothers with newborn babies (up to 16 weeks) and supporters of women, like this father to be.
Pakistan: Scaling up of public sector emergency services advocated
The community-based maternal and newborn health services have the highest scalability potential for rural and remote areas of Pakistan.
Lesotho: Pregnant, positive and on HIV treatment for life
While Botswana has managed to lower HIV transmission rates from mother to child to as low as 3 percent, Lesotho’s rate remains at an unacceptable 23 percent.
‘Saving Lives at Birth’ funds microneedle vaccine patch project for pregnant women
Seven percent of newborns and 30,000 pregnant women in Sub-Saharan countries are dying each year due to tetanus infections.
Nepal’s ‘health army’ has transformed the lives of people in remote areas
Volunteers have been transforming the lives of villagers, delivering primary medical care and saving mothers from often certain death.
Nepal: Government announces free ‘newborn package’
Existing rates of neonatal death caused by hypothermia, pneumonia and other infectious diseases could be checked by warm clothing, health officials said.
New Study by Imaging the World and Philips Demonstrates the Power of Ultrasound Screenings to Transform Maternal and Newborn Care in Rural Uganda
“Magnet Effect” caused by access to innovative ultrasound technology includes positive clinical trends in antenatal visits and newborn deliveries.