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USAID/KENYA Evaluation Services and Program Support (ESPS)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has a solid track record of supporting health ...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has a solid track record of supporting health ...
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-
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading at an alarming rate and some bacterial infections may once again be untreatable. Antibiotic resistance (ABR), conservatively calculated, causes more than 500 000 deaths every year. This number is projected
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Background: Community health worker (CHW) programmes are a valuable component of primary care in resource-poor settings. The evidence supporting their effectiveness generally shows improvements in disease-specific outcomes relative to the absence of
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Civil Society Organisations’ contribution towards community engagement to access and demand health services and encourage communities to practice
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Trends in under-five mortality rate in Malawi: Child health; Child protection ; Child survival ;Early childhood ;Education ;HIV/AIDS
Maternal and
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Technical Note on Antimicrobial Resistance
This document reflects UNICEF’s response to the growing global threat of AMR to child survival, growth and development. It identifies UNICEF’s AMR-specific a
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Newborn Care Videos, Spanish
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The first clinical series is on newborn care and will consist of brief vignettes that “bring to life” internationally accepted newborn care gu
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The first clinical series is on newborn care and will consist of brief vignettes that “bring to life” internationally accepted newborn care gu
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The first clinical series is on newborn care and will consist of brief vignettes that “bring to life” internationally accepted newborn care gu
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A Reference Guide for Program Managers and Policy Makers. Recently, a renewed interest in large-scale community health worker (CHW) programs has been seen globally. This renewal provides an opportun
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Several of our newborn care videos have been narrated in Khmer by University Research Company (URC), which works with the Ministry of Health to improve the quality of
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This document, Ghana’s National Newborn Health Strategy and Action Plan 2014–2018 outlines a targeted strategy for accelerating the reduction o
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This video shows important features of a home visit for a newborn in the week after birth, focusing on care and assessment.
Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care: A guide for essential practice (3rd ed.)
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WHO has been alerted to concerns expressed related to the wording on episiotomy in specific situations. We have temporarily removed the publication from the website while we are doing a review of the evidence with in-house and external experts. We w
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This recommendation is an update of one of the 49 recommendations that were published in the WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. The recommendation was developed initially using the standardized operating procedures described in the WHO handbook for guideline d
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The Road Map outlines various strategies which will guide policy makers, development partners, training institutions and service providers in supporting Government efforts towards the attainment of MDGs related to
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To complement the Global Strategy progress reporting, this report provides a detailed look at country leadership and action toward the Every Newborn National Milestones by 2020. Countries have taken
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Over the past decade, the reduction of maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean has shown signs of a marked slowdown and in some cases
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Yaya et al. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2018) 18:194
Ensuring equitable access to maternal health care including antenatal, delivery, postnata
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DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 97
Postnatal care is essential for all women, their babies, and families during the first few weeks after birth.
Yet, coverage and quality of postnatal care remains suboptimal. We invite those who adv
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The maternal deaths audit is one of the three major strategies recommended by WHO for the
reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality.
Objective
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This report provides a comprehensive overview of the progress made by India in terms of establishment and functionality of Special Newborn Care Units (SNCUs) during the two year period from April 20
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Maternal mortality has fallen significantly in recent years, especially in countries that have emphasized the prevention of its main causes, such as hemorrhagic and infectious complications
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DHS Further Analysis Reports No 102
DHS Working Papers No. 92
This film shows how to deliver and care for a newborn baby and how to resuscitate a newborn that
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Lancet Glob Health 2020Published OnlineDecember 10, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30460-5
Levels and Inequities
DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 110
This study shows large variations in maternal health indicators across high-pr ...
DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 110
This study shows large variations in maternal health indicators across high-pr ...
Lancet Glob Health 2015; 385: e387–95. Open Access
This special issue on Newborn Health in Global Health Action is being launched to share the experience of how to scale up a cost-effective package
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For the full document see : http://nrhm.gov.in/images/pdf/programmes/maternal-health/guidelines/sba_guidelines_for_skilled_attendance_at_birth.pdf
Operational Guidelines
Integrating community engagement and accountability into disaster risk reduction activities of the Maternal, Newborn
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Service Availability and Readiness Assessment Tool
This toolkit was developed to provide detailed information and resources to support implementation of the WHO intrapartum and immediate postnatal care recommendations at the
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Reference Manual for Programme Managers on Accreditation Process
Accessed November 2017
Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Strategic Actions:
1 Endorse and disseminate key policies ...
1 Endorse and disseminate key policies ...
Essential obstetric and newborn care
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Essential obstetric and newborn care is designed as a tool to help protect mothers and their children in adverse environments. It is intended for m
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The main objective of the 2014-15 RDHS was to obtain current information on demographic and health indicators, including family planning; maternal
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WAHA International’s mHealth programme addresses several barriers to maternal and neonatal care, including: a lack of information at the community level about locally available services; a large d
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Updated May 2017
This document is meant to respond to the questions:
■ What health interventions should be delivered during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period?
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This document is meant to respond to the questions:
■ What health interventions should be delivered during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period?
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WHO recommendations on newborn health: Guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee
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Updated May 2017
This document is meant to respond to the questions:
■ What health interventions should be the newborn and young ...
This document is meant to respond to the questions:
■ What health interventions should be the newborn and young ...
The purpose of adding the books to the website of MCAI for download, is to make this life-saving, up-to-date information available to all who need it. Fill in a short registration field and you can download the pdf-files.
If you work in a hospita
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The Lancet Global Health Published:May 12, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30229-1
This infographic looks at how climate change directly and indirectly impacts maternal health, making pregnancy less safe
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This document is to guide policy makers, managers, districts, health workers, communities, NGOs and all other stakeholders on how to implement newborn
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The Report describes the evaluation of WHO's contribution to the Maternal Health Program in South-East Asia Region. This was an independent evaluation conducted in 2015 by Amaltas, a Delhi based org
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Contraception and Family Planning, Preventing Unsafe Abortion and Accessing Postabortion Care, and Mate
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The LDHS provides an opportunity to inform policy and provide data for planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of national
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Background: In 2015, 5.3 million babies died in the third trimester of pregnancy and first month following birth. Progress in reducing neonatal mortality and stillbirth rates has lagged behind the s
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PLoS Med 16(3): e1002768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002768
Home delivery and late and infrequent attendance at antenatal care (ANC) are responsible for substantial avoidable
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The new Global Strategy aims to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for all women, children and adolescents, transform the future and
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The standards for the care of small and sick newborns in health facilities define, standardize and mainstream inpatient care of small
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The interventions summarized in this guide are intended to lower the risk of delivery and post-partum complications for both the mother and the newborn
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Nigeria is committed to end preventable newborn deaths, making life-saving interventions available to all mothers and babies who need them.
The Newborn Situational Analysis reports of 2009 and 2011, as well as the “Bottleneck analysis on neonatal health” of 2013, culminated in the N
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Documentation des meilleures pratiques et des goulots d’étranglement à la mise en œuvre du programme au Sénégal .
1.1 Why this course is needed
The first few hours and days of a newborn baby’s life are a critical window for establishing breastfeeding and for
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1.1 Why this course is needed
The first few hours and days of a newborn baby’s life are a critical window for establishing breastfeeding and for
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Findings on maternal and child health in Nepal, Mozambique and
Rwanda,
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The Early Essential Newborn Care Pocket Guide was developed by the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific for introducing and scaling-up Early Essential
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For health care providers.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality in the world. According to estimates by the United Nations Maternal
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WHO’s Ambition and Action in Nutrition 2016-2025 is anchored in the six global targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutr
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Breastfeeding is the cornerstone of infant and young child survival, nutrition and development and mate
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Healthy maternal nutrition, exclusive breastfeeding, and optimal infant and young child nutrition are critical for appropriate growth
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The National Guideline for Neonatal Care and Establishment of Neonatal Care Unit aims to provide health workers with all basics and necessary knowl
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