Sharing Strategies for Integrating Maternal and Newborn Care: Strengthening the Continuum

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By: Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Interim President and CEO, Family Care International; Mary Kinney, Specialist with Save the Children, Saving Newborn Lives

The global health community gathered May 19 to recognize the importance of integrating maternal and newborn care and to celebrate the release of the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) Progress Report May 2015 and Strategies Toward Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM). The side session at the 68th World Health Assembly Integrating maternal and newborn care: Strengthening the continuum was standing room only as a panel of champions for integration of maternal and newborn health took the stage. Co-sponsored by the Governments of Malawi and Cameroon, this event was planned with the support of a wide range of partners. To learn more about the event… read more