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Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 As Indonesia strives to meet its Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015, the maternal mortality rate increased in 2012 to 359 per…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 Background: The decision to seek facility-based birth care is fundamental to addressing global maternal morbidity and mortality. Kind and respectful maternity care is an…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 Background: Previous meta-analysis suggests that small-scale perinatal audit programmes linked to action may reduce perinatal mortality rates by 30%. The Commission for…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 Preeclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) causes around 40% of maternal deaths in some Nigerian states. Although magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) has been available in Nigeria during the last…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 Three low-cost, effective maternal health medicines – oxytocin, misoprostol, and magnesium sulfate – can save many women who die each year of postpartum…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 As part of the Every Woman Every Child movement, the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (UNCoLSC) for Women and Children has specified magnesium sulfate,…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 Background: In 2015, many LMICs are facing a multifaceted burden of infectious diseases, maternal disease, neonatal disease, non-communicable diseases. Surgical and…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 Background: Two-thirds of all the deaths globally are not recorded in civil registries with cause-of-death information.  Low- and lower-middle income countries, countries…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Decades of armed conflict in South Sudan has resulted in weak educational and health systems, a very low adult literacy rate (27%), low institutional delivery…

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…