Mak Centre of Excellence for Maternal Newborn & Child Health

SAVE THE DATE | Phillip Wanduru's Doctoral Thesis Defence

Date & Time: June 13, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.

Venue: In Inghesalen, Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A and on Zoom https://bit.ly/3Z6zvxn

Alabama boy certified as world's most premature baby Curtis Means defied all odds after he was delivered in Birmingham, Alabama, weighing just 420g.

The C.D.C. endorses Covid vaccinations for pregnant people. The risks of having Covid-19 during a pregnancy are well-established, including severe illness, admission to intensive care, preterm birth and death.

To clamp the umbilical cord more than 3 minutes after birth is essential for term newborns' health and development. Today, my most elaborate work on cord clamping yet is published, a review written together with Judith Mercer , professor in Midwifery, and the author of many important papers on cord clamping for several decades.
We hope to provide an updated, balanced text on the current "knowns and unknowns" regarding the practice of cord clamping, useful for nonprofessionals as well as midwives, obstetricians and neonatologists alike.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clp.2021.05.002
Graphic courtesy Satyan Lakshminrusimha

Happening now - Exemplars in Stunting Reduction. Sharing findings on Determinants of childhood stunting reduction: A case of Uganda. Where team lead Prof Peter Waiswa is a Co-Prinicipal investor.

This is a hybrid event and you are all welcome to join in using zoom technology here:https://zoom.us/j/96119129287?pwd=SVB0ejJOclkwcm92MUNJc1BDLzBldz09

BENEFIT OF KMC IS 65-FOLD HIGHER THAN THE MORTALITY RISK OF COVID-19
“Newborn care providers are stressed and there is lack clarity and guidelines regarding care of small newborns during the pandemic. There is an urgent need to protect life-saving interventions, such as kangaroo mother care (KMC), threatened by the pandemic, and to be ready to recover and build back better,” concludes a new study http://bit.ly/30QupXo that inquired into small and sick newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Relatedly, another paper https://bit.ly/3ltkmAU titled, Preterm care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative risk analysis of neonatal deaths averted by kangaroo mother care verses mortality due to SARS-CoV-2 infection concludes that 125,680 neonatal lives could be saved with universal KMC coverage. “Hence, the benefit of KMC is 65-fold higher than the mortality risk of COVID-19. If recent evidence of 10% transmission was applied, the ratio would be 630-fold. We estimated a 50% reduction in KMC coverage could result in 12,570 incremental deaths and full disruption could result in 25,140 incremental deaths, representing a 2·3–4·6% increase in neonatal mortality across the 127 countries.” According to the study authors, policymakers and healthcare professionals need to protect services and ensure clearer messaging to keep mothers and newborns together, even if the mother is SARS-CoV-2-positive.

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Our team and partners will be sharing why it is important to improve counting of pregnancy outcomes in population based surveys. please join in on https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/99511988599

Today is D-day. Please register and join us this evening!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Uganda PTBi: Transforming the culture of care improves preterm survival. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for a presentation in which we discuss the Preterm Birth Initative's facility-based intrapartum package that improved the odds of preterm survival by 34%!

Please join us on November 30, 2020 at 6p.m. East African Time for a webinar to disseminate our findings from the Preterm Initiative Study which we conducted in Eastern Uganda. To attend, you will need to register.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Uganda PTBi: Transforming the culture of care improves preterm survival. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for a presentation in which we discuss the Preterm Birth Initative's facility-based intrapartum package that improved the odds of preterm survival by 34%!

Impact of COVID-19 on RMNCAH, HIV services in Busoga – Busoga Health Forum A new study conducted the eleven Busoga sub-region districts has found that there was an overall decline in delivery and utilisation of some key RMNCAH and HIV services during the national lockdown. According to the study, the most affected services were general outpatient services, antenatal care,....