More mothers are attending health facilities to deliver their babies, yet 2.6 million babies are stillborn every year, more than a third (42%) of those in Sub-Saharan Africa. What approaches can we…
2.6 million babies worldwide are stillborn each year. The majority of these deaths are preventable.
Following nine months of exciting wait, it is unimaginable despair for a mother to learn of stillbirth.
Kate Kerber, Africa Regional Specialist with Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children explains how to make every birth and death count, and keep us on the path of ending preventable deaths worldwide.
Betsy McCallon argues that we now have an opportunity to break the silence and make progress on this long hidden issue.
Women, particularly in rural areas of developing countries, can have a stillbirth with no medical professionals around, and therefore no record of that baby entering or leaving the world. If we don…
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…
Taking up the cause for our babies survival in 2015.
Most of us know personally or have heard of a woman who has passed away due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth. The tragic truth is that most of these deaths of our Tanzanian mothers and…
