BACKGROUND In Northern Nigeria, infant mortality rates are two to three times higher than in the southern states, and, in 2008, a partnership program to improve maternal, newborn, and child health was established to reduce infant and child mortality in three Northern Nigeria states. The program intervention zones received government-supported health services plus integrated interventions at pri...

SARS-CoV-2 is detected in some newborns born to women with COVID-19, there still remains the possibility of mother-to-child transmission COVID-19 after childbirth, and little known about clinical course infection or infectivity newborn infants COVID-19. Also, are few reports on how spread Newborn Intensive Care Unit can be prevented. Herein, we report case a infant mother Following prearranged ...

INTRODUCTION Adolescent childbearing remains a major challenge to improving neonatal mortality especially in Sub Saharan countries which are still struggling with high neonatal mortality rates. We explored essential newborn care practices and associated factors among adolescent mothers in Western Uganda. METHODS Data were collected among 410 adolescent mothers with children aged one to six mo...

Neonatal mortality accounts for 43% of under-five mortality. Consequently, improving newborn survival is a global priority. However, although there is increasing consensus on the packages and specific interventions that need to be scaled up to reduce neonatal mortality, there is a lack of clarity on the indicators needed to measure progress. In 2008, in an effort to improve newborn survival, th...

By a host of metrics, women and their children have been getting healthier in recent years. Between 1990 and 2013, the annual number of maternal deaths dropped from 523 000 to 289 000. The child mortality story is just as impressive. Since 1990, deaths in children younger than 5 years have declined by 47%. Given the critical role that women and children have in securing a healthy, prosperous, a...

Background Health facility service environment is an important factor for newborns survival and well-being in general and in particular in high mortality settings such as Malawi where despite high coverage of essential interventions, neonatal mortality remains high. The aim of this study is to assess whether the quality of the health service environment at birth is associated with quality of ca...