Uganda: Home visits curb newborn deaths – research

Uganda HNN Team

If health workers could visit mothers at home during pregnancy and after birth, it would make a difference in saving the lives of newborn babies in Uganda, new research suggests.

New Measures Identified for Newborn Care in Uganda

Uganda HNN Team

Recent evidence from local researchers in Uganda show that a cost-effective package of care linking families, government-mandated village health teams, and health facilities can improve life-saving practices during pregnancy, childbirth and in the first weeks of life.

India bets on mobiles in battle on maternal, child deaths

India HNN Team

“These are the most cost-effective health interventions,” said Jhalani, the supervisor of the project, named ‘Kilkari,’ or “Baby’s Gurgle”, which will tailor its recorded messages to individual stages of pregnancy or the age of a newborn.

Kenya’s First Lady explains why Beyond Zero

Kenya HNN Team

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta’s motivation in her Beyond Zero campaign is to ensure that no woman or child will die due to lack of maternal services.

Philippines: Midwife feels ‘Unang Yakap’ gains

Philippines HNN Team

EINC is a set of evidence-based practices recommended by the Department of Health (DOH), Philippine Health Insurance Corp. and the WHO as the standard of care in all births by skilled attendants in all government and private settings.

Sandoz announces training program for midwives in Ethiopia to reduce maternal and newborn mortality

Ethiopia HNN Team

New Life & Hope will sponsor four Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care trainings for 100 healthcare professionals, or midwives. The trainings will impact the care of approximately 40,000 pregnant women in the Addis Ababa area.

Professional midwives set to improve maternal and child health in Bangladesh

Bangladesh HNN Team

“The people of Bangladesh need services at the community level,” explains Salma Khatun, an assistant professor of reproductive health who has been deputized by the government’s Directorate of Nursing Services.

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.

Tackling Maternal, Infant Mortality Through Increased Ambulance Service

Nigeria HNN Team

“The true heroes of struggle are the thousands of midwives, community health extension workers and village health workers working in many rural areas day in day out to save the lives of women, newborn and children.”

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.