Past event
Quality of Community Based Newborn Care in EthiopiaCommunity-Based Newborn Care (CBNC) is an Ethiopian national initiative launched in March 2013 as a means of bringing life-saving care to mothers and newborns at the community level within the Ethiopian health system. CBNC aims to improve newborn survival through the strengthening of Primary Health Care Units and the...
Published content
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Are health facilities in low-income settings able to provide good quality routine MNCH care?This paper, authored by Keith Tomlin and others, looks at health facilities in three settings with high maternal mortality to assess their...
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What influences women’s choice of place of delivery?The study published in BMJ Global Health and authored by Nasir Umar and others is based on a discrete choice experiment following a comprehensive...
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Major gaps in child survival by ethnic groupAt the global level, major inequalities are clear and persistent, write Schellenberg and Berhanu, inequalities by wealth, geographical location,...
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“I felt like I should have delivered at home”The Northeast of Nigeria has some of the highest rates of maternal and newborn deaths in the world. Drastically reducing this number of...
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Understanding mistreatment during institutional delivery in Northeast NigeriaThere is growing evidence from Nigeria and around the world that women who deliver their babies in health facilities can experience mistreatment....
News
Learning from joint research: Maternal, newborn and child health in EthiopiaThese are just some of the results discussed during a joint MNCH learning conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the 7th of November....
Past event
LSHTM – EPHI Maternal Newborn and Child Health Learning ConferenceThe objective of the conference is to synthesize the learning emerging from the joint research efforts in Maternal, Newborn and Child...
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Stronger diagnostic abilities for common childhood illnesses needed in EthiopiaThis paper published by Theodros Getachew et al in Acta Paediatrica reveals findings from a study which included a survey and observations of the...
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‘People have started to deliver in the facility these days’: a qualitative exploration of factors affecting facility delivery in EthiopiaThe findings in this paper, authored by Zelee Hill and others suggest that barriers, which had prevented women in the past from delivering their...