Developing new oral rotavirus vaccine

HNN Team

The University of Otago is playing a major role in the international development of a new low-cost oral vaccine to protect newborn babies against rotavirus.

Nigeria: Jonathan promises high-level advocacy to improve maternal, child health

Nigeria HNN Team

President aims for increased access to essential supplies for maternal, newborn and child health.

Midwives, A Crucial Part Of Caring For The Women Of Mexico

Mexico HNN Team

This is not the usual story about motherhood. It is a story about high infant and maternal mortality among indigenous women and their newborns. Part of this story is about how young women living …

Tackling the last taboo

A simple test for pregnant women and immediate antibiotics could spell the end of congenital syphilis, which kills around a million babies every year

Nigeria: Boosting child, maternal health in FCT

Nigeria HNN Team

Dr Hadiza Balarabe, Director of Primary Healthcare at the FCT Primary Health Care Board, who recently addressed a training workshop for some state technical facilitators in Abuja, spoke of the desirability of accelerated attainment of the health objectives of the MDGs before 2015.

Preterm and low birth-weight infants ‘sign of future stillbirth risk’

HNN Team

Having a preterm infant or delivering a baby that is small for gestational age (SGA) raises the risk a woman will experience a stillbirth, new maternal and newborn research has shown.

Malaria treatment may impact on disease risk for babies

HNN Team

Edinburgh University experts found mice treated with malaria infection drugs before they became pregnant passed on fewer antibodies to their young.

Ghana: Govt secures funds for KATH maternity clinic

Ghana HNN Team

The Government has secured a $240- million loan to complete the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Maternal and Child Welfare Clinic in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

SOUTH AFRICA: New reports chart progress – and costs – in HIV fight

South Africa

Mothers, babies and newly diagnosed HIV patients are receiving more of the services they need but progress comes at a cost, according to a new report that predicts a funding shortfall for HIV treatment in South Africa.

In Asia-Pacific, health poses challenge to 2015 goals

Nepal, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan HNN Team

A new UN assessment indicates South Asia is underperforming in trying to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health.