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Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 What are the key challenges to overcome in maternal newborn health that are amenable to digital solutions? These can be grouped into several domains.  Universal knowhow: most…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) has been shown to prevent newborn mortality and morbidities. Despite its benefits, country-level adoption and implementation have been…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Madagascar’s community health policy promotes community-based maternal, neonatal, reproductive and child health service delivery by CHVs in areas at >5km from a health…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an essential cadre needed to reach mothers and newborns in low resource settings. One of the challenges for building capacity…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Performance-based Financing (PBF) is a promising approach to improve maternal, new-born and child health services in developing countries, but there are concerns that it may…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: The poorest women in hard-to-reach areas in Chiapas, Mexico have substantial difficulties accessing quality maternal and neonatal health care services. Studies in…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Nigeria’s poor reproductive health indices have persisted over the past decade with high maternal mortality ratio (500 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births),…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: High parity and advanced maternal age pregnancies are associated with increased risk of maternal death, as well as other adverse outcomes. Most of these…

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 The RED strategy, originally introduced in Mongolia by WHO and UNICEF to improve immunization coverage was adapted for meeting sexual and reproductive health needs of the…