India: Exploring Mobile Data Collection and Maternal Health in Hyderabad

India HNN Team

Two graduate students see opportunities to use mobile data collection to improve antenatal care in India.

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

India: Kanpur set for a dubious distinction

India HNN Team

In a recent annual health survey Kanpur is among the leading cities with high maternal, infant and prenatal mortality rates.

Malawi: Project reduces maternal deaths

Malawi HNN Team

Community Based Maternal Neonatal Care Programme has reduced maternal and neonatal deaths in Dowa, Malawi implementers of the project said.

Workshop For Midwives, TBAs Held In Accra

Ghana HNN Team

Participants were taken through some topics such as the role of midwives in assisting safe pregnancy, delivery and post delivery care for improved maternal healthcare outcomes.

Day of Birth Alliance Focuses on Saving Lives of Mothers, Newborns With New Tools, Technologies for Health Care Workers

HNN Team

It’s a daunting challenge, but the founding partners of Day of Birth Alliance say helping frontline health workers provide integrated care for mothers and babies during labor, at birth and after can make the difference.

Emergency obstetric care training for docs

  Around 68 doctors were recently trained in Emergency Medical Obstetric Care (EMOC) at the department of obstetrics and gynaecology, Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), for reducing the maternal and neonatal mortality in semiurban and rural areas.

Bangladesh: Antenatal care, safe delivery can curb neonatal deaths

Bangladesh

Neonatal death can reduce to a great extent by ensuring adequate antenatal care and institutional delivery as the death rate has become a grave concern among the medical personnel and related others.

Saving Rural Mother’s Lives

Ethiopia

Nigist Abebe has grown in confidence over five years on the job. Today she is one of 34,000 rural health extension workers at the heart of Ethiopia’s primary health care strategy.

Group: Baby deaths high in Zimbabwe gov’t housing

Zimbabwe

Learn how the displacement of an estimated 700,000 people in the brutal, allegedly politically driven demolition of slums and market stalls throughout Zimbabwe in 2005 is affecting maternal and newborn health.