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.

Saving newborn babies, one embrace at a time

Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam HNN Team

The First Embrace, a regional launch in 37 countries, says Dr. Silvestre, is taking off from the Philippine experience of changing the way we care for our babies, especially immediately after birth, as well as changing our practices for mothers.

With ‘kangaroo care,’ parents can save their premature babies, just by holding them

Ethiopia HNN Team

In hospitals like Zeweditu in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, incubators are rare. And when they are available, the electricity supply isn’t reliable enough to keep them running.

Afghanistan: A unit for “kangaroo mothers” in Kabul

Afghanistan HNN Team

The MSF maternity centre at the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital has forty-two beds, ten of them in the NICU and five for the kangaroo unit.

WHO First Embrace campaign to save more than 50,000 newborn babies a year in Western Pacific Region

HNN Team

First Embrace highlights early essential newborn care (EENC) – a package of actions and interventions that address the most common causes of newborn death or disease, such as prematurity (being born too soon), low birth weight and severe infection.

What it takes to nurture a baby using Kangaroo Mother Care

Rwanda HNN Team

Hospitals in Rwanda have adapted to the Kangaroo Mother Care system and this has helped save lives.

Bill Gates Will Try To Save 2 Million Children From Dying This Year — Here’s How

HNN Team

Bill and Melinda Gates argue — and research backs them up — that the world could save about 2 million newborns every year through a variety of low-cost interventions.

United States: Legacy implements ‘kangaroo care’ for premature babies

United States of America HNN Team

The hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit hosted a two-week Kangaroo-a-thon to encourage more of the skin-to-skin contact.

Premature kids saved by Kangaroo Mother Care discharged

Tanzania, United Republic of HNN Team

Recent statistics shows that at least 13 percent of born babies in Tanzania are born with low birth weight which contributes to the infant’s deaths by 86 percent.

Experts recommend `kangaroo care’ to keep babies warm in winters

India HNN Team

Exposure to fluctuating temperature and changing weather conditions can be hazardous to the health of babies. Experts say `Kangaroo Care’ is the best technique to maintain normal body temperature of kids.