Steroids Are No Boon to World’s Poorer Women

Guatemala, India, Pakistan, Zambia, Kenya HNN Team

Giving steroids to women who are about to give birth prematurely — a standard lifesaving medical practice in richer countries — may be useless or even dangerous in poor countries where most women give birth at home, amajor new study has found.

Lancet Study Calls for Action to Prevent Millions of Newborn Deaths

India HNN Team

“Our findings show that there is an urgent unmet need to provide timely, high-quality care for both mother and baby around the time of birth.”

Lancet Study Calls for Action to Prevent Millions of Newborn Deaths

NYT on the Every Newborn Lancet Series.

Just over a dollar each could save the lives of millions of newborns worldwide

HNN Team

At a cost of little more than one dollar per person, measures such as infection control and improved resuscitation techniques for newborns could save millions of lives.

Saving 3 Million Babies is Easier Than You Think

HNN Team

“I don’t mean theoretically preventable under ideal but unrealistic circumstances. I mean preventable with relatively simple, relatively inexpensive interventions.”

Q&A with Ishtiaq Mannan: Preventing Newborn Deaths

Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan HNN Team

“Two thirds of Bangladeshi mothers that are still delivering at home at the hand of unskilled providers.”

Aquarium pumps saving babies’ lives

Malawi HNN Team

In Malawi, when a newborn is suffering from respiratory distress, he or she is typically provided extra oxygen via tubes placed gently in the nose. But doctors don’t add air pressure to help inflate the infant’s lungs.

Deaths of newborn babies are not inevitable

Uganda HNN Team

There is no such opportunity to solve a problem like the one you have when you know the cause. Research has identified high impact, cost-effective solutions to tackle each of these causes.

Mercy Ships and Laerdal – Helping Babies Breathe Easier in Congo

Congo HNN Team

“The midwives who deliver the babies did not have direct access to emergency medication, proper resuscitation methods or doctors. This needed to change.”

Study Finds ‘Bubble CPAP’ Increases Neonatal Survival Rates

Malawi HNN Team

The first clinical study demonstrated that the device increased the survival rate of newborns with severe respiratory illness from 44 percent to 71 percent.