New Videos on WHO Guidelines for Newborn Care Now Available

Posted on

By: Kayla McGowan, Project Coordinator, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

With the Sustainable Development Goals calling for a global reduction in neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births by 2030, we must make every effort to share lessons, practices, and resources related to newborn health. To this end, Global Health Media recently released a set of seven short videos that teach health workers how to follow new and innovative WHO guidelines for ill newborns. Watch, download, and share the newborn care videos! …read more

Is it Time to Retire the Skilled Birth Attendant Indicator?

Posted on

By: Stephen Hodgins, Senior Technical Advisor, Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children

The skilled birth attendant (SBA) indicator may measure coverage, but it does not necessarily measure quality of care. Perhaps for labor and delivery care, we should shift our focus from who is there and where it happens to what is being done and when……read more