Spl ambulances for newborns

India

India: Staff will use two new ambulances, specially designed for babies less than a month old. The ambulances are equipped to prevent hypoxia, hypothermia and infection which most babies are prone to.

Information Blanket provides warmth and welfare advice

Uganda

The New York branch of design agency, Beattie McGuinness Bungay, has taken the most common of baby accessories — the swaddling blanket — and printed essential information for mothers on it.

Road to Durban: The world needs midwives more than ever

Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh

The scene outside the stadium mirrored a celebratory atmosphere as some 1,000 midwives from 103 countries gathered on a warm Durban winter day cheering for a common cause: The world needs more midwives.

Nepal Midwife Wins Jhpiego’s International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Midwifery

Nepal

Jhpiego presents the International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Midwifery to Nepal’s Maiya Manandhar, a role model for providing services to women.

The Breast Milk Cure

Almost nothing would do as much to fight starvation around the world as the ultimate low-tech solution: exclusive breast-feeding for the first six months of life.

Government to Provide Performance-Linked Incentives to ASHAS

India

 The government has decided to provide performance-linked incentive to accredited social health activists (ASHAs) to reduce neonatal mortality.

Midwife burnout poses threat to reducing maternal mortality

Malawi

Midwives are overworked and underpaid, but a study focusing on midwifery will be a vital tool in helping to tackle the problems.

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health at the 64th World Health Assembly

The Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly has adjourned, with major decisions to support reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH).

Families sue Ugandan government over women’s deaths in childbirth

Uganda

The families of two women who died following obstructed labour begin an historic legal action today, in a bid to force the Ugandan government to tackle the shortages of doctors and midwives, drug stock-outs and absence of emergency transport that kill 16 women a day.

WHO, MOH, UNICEF Hold Home Based Maternal Care TOT

Liberia

An inter-Country Training of Trainers in Home Based Maternal and Newborn Care opened in Monrovia yesterday with a called for participating countries to work in reducing maternal and newborn mortality rate which remain high.