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Apr
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Mothers and newborn in Tanzania should not die of complications of pregnancy and childbirth for lack of access to CEmONC services
2016: Only 12% of health centres provided CEmONC services and therefore many pregnant women and newborns were dying of obstetric complications.
MMR: 578/105 livebirths (2005); 556 (in 2016) •NMR: 25/103 livebirths in 2016
Apr
20
To mark World Health Day, Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Global Affairs Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are announcing nine new research grants for Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa. This $4.5 million commitment is the result of a call for proposals from the 19 implem...
Apr
20
In Summary However, Dr Dismas Matovelo, a maternal health specialist based in Mwanza Region, believes among other reasons, "the power of communities hasn't been fully exploited in improving maternal health." Dar es Salaam. Why are maternal deaths still high in Tanzania? This question still lingers on the minds of health experts. However, Dr ...
Apr
20
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja. A stakeholders meeting on how to move maternal new-born and child health evidence into policy in West Africa is under way in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Organized by the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with the West African Health Organisation (WAHO) and IDRC of Canda, the three-day event, under the theme: ...
Apr
20
In Tanzania's rural Rorya region, approximately 40% of women aren't in the care of medical staff at hospitals or clinics when they deliver their babies. Instead they give birth at home, sometimes with a traditional birth attendant. The region has the one of the lowest facility birth rates in the country. As a result, women die unnecessarily ...
Apr
20
Les 29 au 30 octobre 2015 a eu lieu dans la salle Kumablon du Grand Hôtel de Bamako, l'atelier national d'engagement des parties prenantes du Projet MEP « Moving Maternal Newborn and Child Health Evidence into Policy in West Africa ». Organisé par le Ministère de la Santé et de l'Hygiène Publique (MSHP) du Mali avec l'appui technique et fina...
Apr
20
Du 19 au 20 novembre 2015 s'est tenue dans l'une des salles de réunion de la maison de retraite Antoine Nanga à Ouagadougou, l'atelier national d'engagement des différentes parties prenantes du projet Moving for Maternal Newborn and Child Health Evidence into Policy in West Africa. L'objectif de l'atelier était une appropriation du projet par les a...
Apr
20
Du 24 au 27 avril 2017, l'Organisation Ouest Africaine de la Santé (OOAS) et le Centre de Recherche pour le Développement International (CRDI) co-organisent à Dakar au Sénégal, un atelier international à mi-Parcours sur l'initiative ''Innovation pour la Santé des Mères et Enfants d'Afrique (ISMEA). Près de 80 participants représentant les di...