Pakistan Makes Renewed Effort to Reduce Child and Maternal Mortality

Pakistan

Achieving the MDG will require an average annual rate of 14.2 per cent reduction of mortality among children less than five years between 2011 and 2015, which is almost six times the one achieved until 2011, the report says.

Nigeria: E4A announces three-day media training

Nigeria HNN Team

The training has been designed to train journalists on the need for accountability, improved advocacy and the use of credible information to save lives of mothers and newborns in Nigeria.

‘Too little known’ on early birth

HNN Team

Experts warn more research is needed to find out how to reduce the number of babies born early. 

Women Deliver: closing the gap for reproductive and maternal health—call for papers

 (The Lancet) invite(s) high quality submissions that address the themes of the conference and are from research groups working on reproductive, maternal, and newborn health globally.

Zulfiqar Bhutta: patriotics and paediatrics

Pakistan HNN Team

“In my heart of hearts I feel very optimistic”, he says. “Even amongst the conflict and the societal fissures, I see the seeds of social change.” There is certainly no doubting Pakistan’s resilience.

India: Online system to soon track maternal and infant deaths

India

The Haryana government will soon have a web-based surveillance system to keep tabs on the maternal deaths and that of infants or yet-to-be born children.

Elective Labor Induction at Term May Reduce Perinatal Death

HNN Team

Elective labor at term gestation can reduce perinatal mortality in developed countries when compared with expectant management. This benefit occurs without increasing the risk for operative delivery.

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.

India: State has no data on premature births

India

The birth registers maintained by the state health department do not record the number of preterm babies born every year but groups them along with babies with low birth weigh

INDIA: Infant mortality down in state

India

A drop in infant mortality can be attributed in part to a reduction in neonatal mortality rate.