WHO launches programme to improve antenatal care in Mozambique

Mozambique HNN Team

Now women, like Langa, only have to visit one clinic. Each clinic receives complete antenatal care packages with all of the necessary medicines and laboratory supplies.

SickKids contributes to first International Standards to assess fetal growth and newborn size worldwide

Brazil, China, India, Kenya, United States of America HNN Team

The international standards – one for the growing fetus and the other for newborns – provide doctors and midwives with clinical tools that can be incorporated immediately into practice during pregnancy and at birth.

Health needs escalate as crisis in Gaza continues

HNN Team

The home and maternal health clinic of Feeza Shraim, a UNFPA-supported midwife in the Gaza Strip, were destroyed in an airstrike.

Bihar CM leads Political Conclave to end newborn deaths, with Save the Children

India HNN Team

Save the Children hosted a political conclave – on the theme ‘No Child Born to Die’ — with elected representatives and political leaders from Bihar in the state capital.

High rates of drug resistance among HIV-positive infants in South Africa

South Africa HNN Team

Over half the infants exposed to treatment for the PMTCT or as infant prophylaxis had resistance to drugs in the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) class.

Malaria Prevention during Pregnancy Improves Health of Mothers and Babies

HNN Team

Report shares evidence that intermittent preventive malaria treatment during pregnancy and the use of ITNs can reduce the risk of death to malaria within the first 28 days of life by 18%.

South Africa: Give Babies, Mothers a Fighting Chance

South Africa HNN Team

The Countdown to 2015 report released confirmed that fewer than half of the 75 countries studied would meet the target to reduce the deaths of children under the age of 5 by 2/3rds by next year.

Born equal: Babies born to healthy mothers worldwide grow similarly in the womb and are of strikingly similar size at birth

Brazil, China, India, Kenya, United States of America HNN Team

Poor nutrition and health, not race or ethnicity, cause most of the current wide disparities in fetal growth and newborn size

Integrating Health Care Systems to Save Lives

Kenya

Benta and Ezekiel Awino have brought their 9-month-old baby, Ronny, to Rongo District Hospital in Western Kenya for an HIV test.

WHO recommends women’s groups to improve maternal and newborn health

Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Malawi HNN Team

The World Health Organisation has recommended an intervention developed and tested by partners in four countries and UCL researchers to improve maternal and newborn health.