Making every baby count: Reflection on the Helping Babies Breathe Program to reduce birth asphyxia in sub-Saharan Africa

Using quality improvement to decrease birth asphyxia rates after 'Helping Babies Breathe' training in Kenya.

AIM The Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) programme is known to decrease neonatal mortality in low-resource settings but gaps in care still exist. This study describes the use of quality improvement to sustain gains in birth asphyxia-related mortality after HBB. METHODS Tenwek Hospital, a rural referral hospital in Kenya, identified high rates of birth asphyxia (BA). They developed a goal to decre...

Implementation of the Helping Babies Breathe (hbb) Program in Tanzania

Helping Babies Breathe implementation in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

AIM To assess the efficacy and feasibility of implementing Helping Babies Breathe, a neonatal resuscitation programme for resource-limited environments. BACKGROUND This quality improvement project focused on training midwives on Helping Babies Breathe to address high rates of neonatal mortality secondary to birth asphyxia. METHODS The convenience sample was 33 midwives in Zanzibar, Tanzania...

Global gains after Helping Babies Breathe.

Implementation of basic neonatal resuscitation in lowand middle-income settings consistently results in lives saved on the day of birth. Wrammert et al. explore the causes and timing of newborn deaths in a large maternity facility in Nepal before and after the introduction of basic newborn resuscitation through Helping Babies Breathe (HBB), implemented along with quality improvement cycles aime...

Vaccinations of International Travellers From Greece to Sub-Saharan Africa

Introduction: The number of travellers from Greece who travel to sub-Saharan Africa has increased during the last decade. Our aim in this research was to study vaccination patterns for travellers travelling to sub-Saharan Africa.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2011 until December 2014 in all (57) public health departments in Gr...