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.
Every Newborn in Focus at Ministerial Breakfast
Nepal, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Rwanda, Zambia
HNN Team
An informal breakfast meeting organized by PMNCH, brought together a dozen ministers of health and representatives from the Gates Foundation led by Melinda Gates, to discuss maternal and newborn health with a specific focus on the Every Newborn Action Plan.
Lancet Study Calls for Action to Prevent Millions of Newborn Deaths
NYT on the Every Newborn Lancet Series.
Newborn health: which are the safest countries to be born in?
New research published in medical journal, the Lancet, has found that more than 5.5m babies are born and die each year without a birth or death certificate.
Stillbirth Remains an ‘Unacknowledged Problem’
These early deaths are rarely included in national medical records, study says