MCSP and WHO Release New Evidence Brief for Augmentation of Labour
USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), along with World Health Organization, releases its latest evidence brief: Recommendations for Augmentation of Labour.
Registration for Woman Deliver Conference 2016 Now Open
Women Deliver’s 4th Global Conference, taking place 16-19 May 2016, will be the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health and rights in the last decade and one of the first major global conferences following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Webinar: Helping Babies Breathe catalyzing Helping Babies Survive
Ethiopia, Nigeria, India
HNN Team
This webinar will analyze lessons learned from a Global Development Alliance and its future plans.
Bangladesh: Improving newborn survival
Bangladesh
HNN Team
Implementation of CNCP in Kushtia district has been recently launched in Dhaka by the Directorates of Health Services (DGHS) and Directorates of Family Planning (DGFP) with technical support from Saving Newborn Lives Programme of Save the Children.
Del Mar Rotary medical training project improves odds for newborns in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
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During this first phase of the project, the team trained 17 health care professionals in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Gondar.
Bangladesh: CNCP Launched to Improve Newborn Survival
Bangladesh
HNN Team
This package will be implemented in Kushtia with technical support from SNL, Save the Children in Bangladesh to measure the strength of implementation so that those interventions could be implemented at scale within the existing government system later on.
Uganda: Health ministry directs NMS on resuscitation kits
Uganda
HNN Team
Previously, the procurement and supply of the kits had largely depended on donors and had not been adequate or consistent, leading to severe shortages at Health Centres III and IV.
Bangladesh: Child mortality drops as Special Care Newborn Unit are saving babies
Bangladesh
HNN Team
By 2015, UNICEF plans to support the upgrading of SCANUs in nine more hospitals in managing sick newborns.
In much of the world, the survival of newborns cannot be taken for granted
Tanzania, United Republic of
HNN Team
The suddenness of this little girl’s death, so soon after her welcome to the world, made it seem particularly cruel. To the nurses, however, it was hardly unusual.
Workshop on ‘Helping Babies Breathe’ held at LUMHS
Pakistan
HNN Team
The goal of the HBB initiative is to have at least one person skilled in neonatal resuscitation at the birth of every child.