A million babies a year die within 24 hours – report

Nigeria, Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia HNN Team

Save the Children want governments to issue declarations on ending preventable newborn mortality, and said they would present their action plan to government ministers.

Pakistan holds highest rate of stillbirths globally

Pakistan HNN Team

“It’s criminal that many of these 200,000 deaths annually in Pakistan could be averted simply by having someone around to make sure the birth takes place safely and knows what to do in a crisis.”

Pakistan tops newborn death rate

Pakistan HNN Team

Participants of the ceremony – doctors, journalists and government authorities – were all shocked to learn about the lack of basic health facilities to majority of Pakistani mothers, resulting in death of hundreds of thousands of children across Pakistan.

Invisible children: birth registration is a prerequisite for equality

Nigeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Mozambique, Pakistan, South Africa, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Vietnam HNN Team

More than a third of children are not registered at birth, making it difficult for them to contribute to economic, social and political life. Could a new governance indicator bring change?

Pakistan: 48 percent of newborns delivered by unskilled health staff: report

Pakistan HNN Team

More than half of the deliveries do not occur in well-equipped healthy facilities.

Pakistan: Plan to achieve MDGs for maternal, neonatal healthcare

Pakistan HNN Team

Awareness regarding nutritional needs for the mother and child during and after pregnancy is poor in the general population.

Pakistan: Scaling up of public sector emergency services advocated

Pakistan HNN Team

The community-based maternal and newborn health services have the highest scalability potential for rural and remote areas of Pakistan.

Pakistan: Improving MNH indicators: Viable transport termed a lifesaver for mothers, newborns

Pakistan HNN Team

Health professionals and experts from national and international organizations participated in a discussion that stressed the need to implement remedial steps to address factors causing large numbers of maternal and newborn deaths.

Pakistan: Workshop underway to deliver MNCH action plan 2013-2015

Pakistan HNN Team

The newborn mortality rate now constitutes more than half of all infant deaths. IMR, MMR and newborn mortality rates are higher than those in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Pakistan: Maternal, neonatal mortality: Low-cost innovations can save lives

Pakistan HNN Team

Most often the best excuse the government advances for the failure is financial constraint, but there are cost-effective innovations and methods that could help save millions of lives.