Sustaining and Expanding Activities to Shift Social Norms and Care Practices for Preterm and Low Birthweight Babies.
Khanda ndi Mphatso (KnM), translated as “A Baby is a Gift”, a SBCC campaign intended to improve newborn health by shifting norms around the value of newborns and promoting Kangar
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oo Mother Care (KMC) for preterm and low birthweight (PTB/LBW) babies.
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Every year, an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm – before 37 weeks of pregnancy. That is more than 1 in 10 live births. Approximately 1 million children die each year worldwide due to complications from their early birth. Those that survive often face a lifetime of ill-health including
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disability, learning difficulties, and visual and hearing problems.
Half of the babies born at or below 32 weeks (2 months early) die in low-income settings, due to a lack of feasible, cost-effective care, such as warmth, breastfeeding support, and basic care for infections and breathing difficulties. In high-income countries, almost all these babies survive.
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Recommendations for health care professionals – the experience from Latvia
An ICRC Guidance Document
A training manual for safe motherhood action groups (MAMaZ)
To provide quality maternal and newborn health services at health facilities in India.
Documentation of Best Practices and Bottlenecks to Program Implementation in Senegal
SUMMARY REPORT
Accessed at March 2014
This curriculum can be used freely in order to stimulate means of ethical analysis, reflection and decision-making.
A Training Course for Service Providers
A Training Course for Service Providers
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