Guinea-Bissau: Hospital births on rise
Guinea-Bissau
nbucknor
More women in Guinea-Bissau are shunning traditional birthing attendants and choosing to give birth in hospitals, say doctors and aid officials…
Mali: Professionalizing health volunteers
Mali
HNN Team
The government is considering ways to retain, support and train health volunteers to fill gaps in a system…
Stopping a silent tragedy: reducing neonatal deaths in the Philippines
Philippines
nbucknor
This article concerns the neonatal mortality rate in the Philippines and the practices, including Kangaroo Mother Care, being implemented to lower it.
Harvard dean Julio Frenk to chair PMNCH board
Dr Julio Frenk, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, has been elected Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health…
BU’s bid on global health gets help
Zambia
nbucknor
The four year grant… will allow a BU team of medical researchers to test whether an antiseptic wash can reduce infections of the umbilicus in the month after birth…
Q&A with Bolivia’s newborn health expert
Bolivia
nbucknor
This article is a brief interview with Bertha Pooley of Save the Children concerning newborn health in Bolivia.
The Princess Royal pays tribute to midwives
Ethiopia, South Africa
jparadis
Meet the 2008 International Midwife Award recipients