Malawi has the highest preterm birth rate in the world. Every year, 120,200 babies are born preterm, and 5,300 of these die due to preterm birth complications. But two women did not want their babies…
Read this blog to see how you can support this year's World Prematurity Day on 17 November.
Sarah Moxon looks back on her years as a neonatal nurse, when she experienced first-hand the challenges of caring for sick and premature newborns and the impact this has on families. She considers…
Doreen was in the middle of her seventh month of pregnancy, when she went into labour. Luckily the hospital where she gave birth has a special nurse for the kangaroo mother care ward and deaths have…
It is tragic that many people are not aware of these big losses. Bigger than the tax aversion scandals my fellow country men and women make noise about daily, because we cannot put a price tag on a…
It is not every day there is a special Ministerial visit to a gathering of journalists. Or let me put it this way; Ministers are very busy during Parliament season in Dodoma. So busy that to get even…
Every year, one million babies die from preterm birth complications. Why is progress so slow?
Antenatal corticosteroids are amongst the most effective hospital-based interventions to reduce newborn death.
I was born premature. Read what I found out about my birth!
Regardless of education, this is how neighbourhood or family influence over medical advice may carry dangerous consequence for pregnant women and their newborns.
The Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria and Health Development Partners in the country released a joint statement to commemorate World Prematurity Day 2013. The statement gives insight into…
Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria and health development partners take the World Prematurity Day message to Dakibiyu Jabi village, Abuja. Check out the activities from start to finish in tweets by @…
The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth released in May 2012 puts the 2010 figure of preterm births in Ghana at 11,500 constituting 14.5 percent of live births recorded in Ghana. Out of this number…
MamaYe Malawi celebrates World Prematurity Day 2013! Malawi has the highest preterm birth rate in the world! Prematurity matters because babies born too soon are extremely vulnerable to death or…
Preterm birth is a public health problem worldwide, and in Ghana. Learn about preterm birth and take action! One in three newborn deaths are due to preterm birth complications. Babies born too soon…
A rare sight to applaud is of Omari Ali cradling one of his tiny twin sons strapped close to his body, at a health centre in Mwembeladu, Zanzibar.
