Improving preterm birth outcomes: WHO launches new guidance

HNN Team

The primary audience for this guideline includes health-care professionals who are responsible for developing national and local health-care protocols and policies, as well as managers of maternal and child health programmes and policy-makers in all settings.

Preterm birth now among leading causes of infant deaths

Uganda

Preterm birth now among leading causes infant deaths

Thrive Networks and Embrace Merge Newborn Health Solutions: Programs Join Forces to Multiply Lifesaving Impact

Afghanistan, Benin, Cambodia, China, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia, Vietnam, South Sudan

Thrive Networks and newborn care innovator Embrace are joining forces to increase the reach and impact of their solutions to a persistent global health challenge: the unacceptably high newborn mortality rate in countries around the globe. 

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).

Biobank SOPs, Data Dictionary and Consent Template Now Available

HNN Team

These documents are being provided to facilitate standardized terminology, consent, collection, processing and storage across biobanks and research studies.

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.

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.

Mobile phone app to identify premature babies in the developing world

India HNN Team

The app combines simple measurements with elements of the Ballard test which is used by experienced healthcare professionals to estimate gestation and looks at developmental characteristics.

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.

Extremely Premature Babies Face Developmental Issues, Study Says

HNN Team

A new study shows premature babies score lower on cognitive tests.