Open for Consultation – Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality
The draft “Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality” is now online and open for discussion through the World Health Organization (WHO) website. A companion piece to the Every Newborn Action Plan,
Born equal: Babies born to healthy mothers worldwide grow similarly in the womb and are of strikingly similar size at birth
Brazil, China, India, Kenya, United States of America
HNN Team
Poor nutrition and health, not race or ethnicity, cause most of the current wide disparities in fetal growth and newborn size
Global forum calls for urgent action to curb health inequities, cut maternal and child mortality
More than 800 leaders and public health experts from around the world opened a landmark two-day meeting in Johannesburg
World Leaders Challenged to Ensure Every Woman and Child Live
HNN Team
Mrs Graça Machel, PMNCH Chair and African Ambassador for A Promised Renewed, was emphatic in her address as she opened the Partners’ Forum.
Finally, neonatal mortality prevention gains attention
Bolivia, Cameroon, India, Malawi, United States of America
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All the 194 countries that attended the World Health Assembly last month agreed to a commitment to support and implement measures that would save these lives.
The Lancet: Midwifery matters “more than ever”
Three quarters of stillbirths and maternal and newborn deaths could be prevented in the next 15 years if effective midwifery was available to all women.
Q&A with Kathryn Bolles: Best Places to be a Mother
An interview with Save the Children’s Kathryn Bolles.
Lancet Study Calls for Action to Prevent Millions of Newborn Deaths
NYT on the Every Newborn Lancet Series.