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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 The success of key interventions for maternal and newborn health depends upon the continuous availability of essential medicines and supplies at health facilities.…

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 This presentation will speak about global trends in adolescent health, and highlight challenges to improving health outcomes and successful strategies towards overcoming…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: In October 2013, a group of global KMC stakeholders met in Istanbul and launched the KMC Acceleration, an effort to accelerate the uptake of effective KMC…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: In the recent years, Government of India under the umbrella of National Health Mission (NHM) has introduced a number of schemes like JSY (Janani Surakshya Yojana)…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Before 1990, modern contraception methods and abortion were illegal in Romania while over 80% of maternal deaths were reportedly caused by illegal abortion. In…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: In Tanzania, addressing birth asphyxia, a leading cause of newborn death, is a national priority and includes scale up of Helping Babies Breathe (HBB).…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 All programs make implicit assumptions that are critical to the successful implementation of the program.  Taking a realist evaluation approach, we interrogate assumptions in…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 This presentation will discuss lessons for evaluators from a project titled, “Building Health Equity in China through Evaluation Capacity Building.” This paper…