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.

Liberia: The toughest place to be a midwife?

Liberia

One in 25 babies delivered in Liberia, West Africa is stillborn or dies within 24 hours, making it one of the toughest places in the world to deliver babies, as a British midwife found.

Voices from the Field: Sangeeta Delivers—Helping Indian Women, Infants Survive Childbirth

India

Training gives confidence to auxiliary nurse midwives, helping reduce maternal and newborn deaths.

Mozambique, MCHIP Program Gives Pregnant Women Reasons To Give Birth in Hospitals

Mozambique

Improved maternal health services under the Model Maternities Initiative has increased the number of facility births with a skilled birth attendant present, a critical factor in safeguarding the lives of mother and child.

Africa Regional Meeting to Focus on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care

The disparate impact of pregnancy-related complications on women in the developing world are bringing together experts from across Africa to a special meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to promote and increase interventions that will save women’s lives.

State of World’s Midwifery: New Report to Document Birth Attendance in 60 Countries

The report, which will be the first of its kind, is intended to strengthen midwifery capacity around the world and provide new information and data from 60 countries.

Plans to address lack of midwives

Cambodia

In order to combat Cambodia’s high maternal and infant mortality rates in the country’s rural areas, the Health Ministry has announced new plans for midwife training programs that will bring more midwives outside urban Phnom Penh.

‘Maama’ kits to reverse infant mortality rate

Uganda

Uganda has signed an international agreement to ensure that mothers and children are protected during birth. Save the Children has started distributing delivery kits to mothers in the country as well sensitising pregnant women to utilise health centre services to avoid complications.

12 health solutions we’d like to see more of in 2011

Read about the great health solutions we need to see more in 2011 – Big ideas that cost little, including Kangaroo Mother Care. 

Bangladesh: Move to reduce neonatal mortality rate

Bangladesh

Underprivileged mothers of Titas upaliza in Comilla who had their deliveries and anti-natal care services at health complex or any other health facilities are getting cash incentives and gifts for new born babies.