Malawi: Project reduces maternal deaths

Malawi HNN Team

Community Based Maternal Neonatal Care Programme has reduced maternal and neonatal deaths in Dowa, Malawi implementers of the project said.

Pregnant Women Get ‘Mama Kits’

Nigeria HNN Team

In an effort to reduce maternal mortality in the country, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has provided “mama kits’ for pregnant women to encourage ante-natal attendance.

Health Personnel trained on newborn screening for sickle cell disease

Ghana

The Sickle Cell Foundation (SCF) has embarked on a training workshop for health personnel to adequately equip them for the nationwide newborn sickle cell screening scheduled to start early next year

Save the Children urges for expanding LHWs services

Pakistan

Save the Children on Wednesday urged to increase the number of Lady Health Workers (LHWs) to expand maternal and child health services in Pakistan

Mothers supporting mothers

Indonesia

Fourteen years ago, my mother’s group gave me the information and support I needed to nourish my baby naturally and to trust my instincts as a mother. I felt so honored to once again be part of such an empowering circle of women.

Information Blanket provides warmth and welfare advice

Uganda

The New York branch of design agency, Beattie McGuinness Bungay, has taken the most common of baby accessories — the swaddling blanket — and printed essential information for mothers on it.

Nepal – City slum dwellers’ health condition appalling

Nepal

A recent survey in Nepal has revealed that many women living in slum areas of Kathmandu are either unaware of it or reluctant to benefit from free birth services.

Society for Clinical Trials Selects India’s “Jharkhand and Orissa” trial as “Trial of the Year”

India

The Ekjut Trial in Jharkhand and Orissa earns recognition as "Trial of the Year" – After three years of the intervention, neonatal mortality was reduced by 45% and maternal depression by 57%.

Internet Kiosks Help Reduce Infant Mortality Rates: Study examined women’s use of technology in rural India

India

Read about a new study conducted by a researcher at the University of Arkansas shows that Internet kiosks providing information on prenatal and postnatal care for mother and baby have helped reduce infant, child, and maternal mortality rates in rural India.

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

As a follow up piece to the column "Villages Without Doctors" published in the New York Times this week, Tina Rosenberg examines why some community health care models are more sustainable than others, and how successful models can be taken to scale.