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Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 As in most emergency situations, the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak severely impacted Maternal and Newborn health, reversing the gains that had been made in the past…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Sierra Leone was the worst affected country in West Africa’s recent Ebola epidemic. Prior to the epidemic, the status of the health system was poor. The most recent public…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Recent global commitments have affirmed the need to integrate maternal and newborn health to ensure that women and newborns thrive, not just survive. Emergency…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: The Government of Uganda committed to ensuring that by 2015 all sub-county and county health centers will provide basic emergency obstetric and newborn care…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: The Government of Tanzania has failed to deliver its commitment to ensure that 50% of health centers provide CEmONC by 2015. Health facility assessments conducted…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Since 2008, the World Lung Foundation’s (WLF) Maternal Health Program, together with the Government, has established comprehensive emergency obstetric and…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: The potential of the rapidly expanding field of mobile health (mHealth) has not yet been fully harnessed in support of efforts to improve maternal and newborn…

Key Messages of WHO’s Augmentation of Labour Guidelines Augmentation of labour is a useful and important intervention when appropriate treatment, based on evidence-informed guidelines, is provided for delay in labour. This intervention aims to prevent…