Health systems failing newborns

Afghanistan HNN Team

Stella Abwao of MCHIP, shared details of a survey in several African countries, which found that there was poor healthworker knowledge of newborn care and management of complications.

Uganda: Many districts hard to serve, says minister

Uganda HNN Team

The State Minister for Health General Services said the Ministry for Health is overstretched by demand for health services due to the creation of new districts.

Pakistan: Plan to cut child, maternal mortality rates: Millennium goals set to be missed

Pakistan HNN Team

Ms. Wazirali said the plan is based on interventions and strategies and covered delivery of a package of MNCH services in 40 least developed areas and districts.

Analysis: Tackling Ethiopia’s Maternal Deaths

Ethiopia HNN Team

The health extension programme, through which the government has trained some 30,000 lay extension workers, is also expected to improve women’s access to skilled birth attendance.

Improving Maternal and Newborn Health in Africa One “Champion” at a Time

Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya

 MCHIP discusses Madagascar’s approach to Maternal and Newborn Health.

Madagascar: Traditional midwives back in fashion

Madagascar HNN Team

Madagascar’s traditional midwives are now being recruited to get women to deliver in clinics or hospitals, part of a move to lower maternal and newborn death rates.

Uganda: How community efforts can improve maternal healthcare

Uganda HNN Team

 The Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) is soon leading an implementation research undertaking to test community initiatives for maternal and newborn healthcare.

Rwanda: More Women Deliver in Hospitals

Rwanda HNN Team

In 2000, only 10 percent of women in Rwanda delivered in a proper health facility. By 2010 that number had increased to 69 percent.

Newborn Deaths Expose India’s Low Health Budget

India HNN Team

A year after the Indian government began paying pregnant women to deliver their babies in state-run facilities, the pressure is showing on the country’s understaffed and poorly equipped hospitals.

Save Our Children From Unnecessary Death

HNN Team

Op-ed article by The Namibian columnist Tsudao Gurirab about newborn mortality in Namibia and how health outcomes must be improved.