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Twelve-month Contraceptive Continuation Among Women Initiating Short- and Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
An evaluation of a contraceptive services program in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was conducted to measure 12-month contraceptive continuation by type of contraceptive method (short-acting or long-acting). This is the first study of
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A New Look at Care in Pregnancy: Simple, Effective Interventions for Neglected Populations
This report seeks to fill a research gap observed on the potential impact of antenatal care (ANC). Since the work done by WHO almost 15 years ago, there has been relatively little attention in the maternal-newborn health community to the content and poten
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Prevention and Management of Neonatal Hypothermia in Rural Zambia
As little is known about practices related to newborn hypothermia in rural Africa, this study sought to characterize relevant practices, attitudes, and beliefs in rural Zambia. By building an understanding of community-based practices on hypothermia preve
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Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Indicators for Global Tracking of Newborn Care
In 2008, in an effort to clarify the indicators needed to measure progress of improving newborn survival, the Newborn Indicators Technical Working Group (TWG) convened. The TWG promoted consistent measurement of postnatal care for women and newborns and f
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Reaching Mothers and Babies with Early Postnatal Home Visits: The implementation realities of achieving high coverage in large-scale programs
This research report explores the impact of postnatal home visits in select regions of Nepal and Bangladesh that were undertake from 2000-2012 during Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) programme. Neonatal deaths account for an astounding perce