Global child mortality rate declines: UN
The global mortality rate for young children has been nearly halved in the past two decades, but Africa and South Asia have not kept pace, the United Nations said.
New treatment could tackle preventable causes of death for newborns in sub-Saharan Africa
Researchers find alarming prevalence of malaria and sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women and call for urgent trials.
New Clues Revealed in Studies of Stillbirth
In two new studies, researchers have pinpointed the most common causes of stillbirths and have found that known risk factors explain just a small minority of cases.
Global study finds newborns struggle to survive
Fewer newborn babies are dying worldwide, but progress is too slow and Africa is being left behind, said a global study led by the World Health Organization
In Decline, Stillbirths Continue to Devastate
Though stillbirths have declined sharply since the 1940s, they remain very much with us, and not just among women who are poor or poorly educated or lack access to good medical care.
Nigeria has highest rate of Stillbirths in Africa
The first comprehensive set of stillbirth estimates has said 42 out every child 1,000 children born in Nigeria would have been stillbirth
‘The grief is all engulfing’: Each day in Britain, 17 babies are stillborn – why is the toll so high?
Britain has one of the very worst incidences of stillbirths of all developed countries. Ranking 32nd out of 35 countries, with a rate of 3.5 deaths per 1,000 births.
Global stillbirths: 2.6 million a year, overlooked and often preventable
About 2.6 million babies are born dead each year, a largely ignored and silently grieved loss of life, about half of which could be prevented.
Stillbirth rate in UK one of Europe’s highest, Lancet finds
Report says many of 4,000 babies stillborn each year could be saved with increase in awareness and research
Fear of the anti-abortion lobby partly to blame for delayed action on stillbirths
A much-needed series on stillbirths exposes the true scale of the deaths of babies in the last weeks of pregnancy and in labour. This should have been a global health issue long ago, but general neglect was compounded by fear of fuelling the controversy over the viability of the foetus.