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Developing countries lack vital registrations that are present in high-income countries. Because of the shortage of such essential information, translating policy into action and monitoring programmes to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths is difficult.…

Our study called for research to understand how referral and transport interventions work for obstetric emergencies. This research is crucial since decisions to seek care can be deferred or hindered, and even if decisions are rapidly made to seek care,…

While a maternal death is devastating in its own right, a mother’s death is not an isolated event; when a mother dies there are immediate and lasting repercussions for her children, her family, and the broader community. As the dawn of the Sustainable…

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, together with the World Health Organization, with support from Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, are updating estimates of stillbirth rates at national level for the first time since 2009, and…

By: Ellen Brazier, Senior Technical Advisor for Community Engagement, EngenderHealth; Moustapha Diallo, Country Director, EngenderHealth Guinea EngenderHealth’s Fistula Care Plus project recently published the results of two studies in Guinea, one…

By: Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Director of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, ICS Integrare; Sheetal Sharma, Research and Knowledge Management Associate, ICS Integrare This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted…

By: Graciela Salvador-Davila, Senior Advisor for Maternal and Newborn Health, Pathfinder International; Rebecca Herman, Communications Specialist, Pathfinder International This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog…

By: Niyi Osamiluyi, Founder/CEO, Premier Medical Systems Nigeria, Ltd. This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the “Integration of Maternal and Newborn Health: In Pursuit of Quality”…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Koki Agarwal, Director, MCHIP This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the…

By: Thyra de Jongh, Founder and Director, Gephyra International Health Consultancy This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force Are we doing enough? As the deadline for the Millennium…