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"It might be a statistic to me, but every death matters.”: An assessment of facility-level maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response systems in four sub-Saharan African countries
Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) systems aim to understand and address key contributors to maternal and perinatal deaths to prevent future deaths. From 2016–2017, the US Agency for International Development’s Maternal and Chi
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Improving Skin-to-Skin Practice for Babies in Kangaroo Mother Care in Malawi Through the Use of a Customized Baby Wrap: A randomized control trial
Complications of prematurity are a leading cause of newborn death in Malawi. Despite early adoption of Kangaroo mother care (KMC), coverage remains low and women have expressed challenges in using the traditional wrapper–chitenge. In 2016, a study was con
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What is Meant by Validity in Maternal and Newborn Health Measurement? A conceptual framework for understanding indicator validation
Rigorous monitoring supports progress in achieving maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity reductions. Recent work to strengthen measurement for maternal and newborn health highlights the existence of a large number of indicators being used for this
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Managing Possible Serious Bacterial Infection of Young Infants where Referral is not Possible: Lessons from the early implementation experience in Kushtia District learning laboratory, Bangladesh
Background Serious infections account for 25% of global newborn deaths annually, most in low-resource settings where hospital-based treatment is not accessible or feasible. In Bangladesh, one-third of neonatal deaths are attributable to serious infection;
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Barriers and Enablers for Practicing Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in Rural Sindh, Pakistan
Save the Children conducted this qualitative study in two health facilities of Sindh, Pakistan from October to December 2016 to understand the key barriers and enablers to a mother's ability to practice Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), and the feasibility of i
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The Intersection of School Corporal Punishment and Associated Factors: Baseline results from a randomized controlled trial in Pakistan
Violence against youth is a global issue; one form of youth victimization is school corporal punishment. This study used baseline assessments from a cluster randomized controlled trial to examine the prevalence of school corporal punishment, by gender, an
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What Matters to Women during Childbirth: A systematic qualitative review
Optimum outcomes for pregnant women and their babies depend on acceptable, affordable, accessible, high quality provision of maternity care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. However, the overuse of interventions in some contexts, and
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Gender-Transformative Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Reproductive and Maternal Health and Violence Prevention in Rwanda: Findings from a randomized controlled trial
Rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of male engagement interventions, particularly on how these interventions impact relationship power dynamics and women’s decision-making, remains limited. This study assessed the impact of the Bandebereho gender-tran
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The Impact of a Family Skills Training Intervention Among Burmese Migrant Families in Thailand: A randomized controlled trial
This randomized controlled trial assessed the impact of a family-based intervention delivered to Burmese migrant families displaced in Thailand on parenting and family functioning.Participants included 479 Burmese migrant families from 20 communities in T