How Low-cost Private Health Facilities are Saving Newborns with Targeted Neonatal Emergency Obstetric Care Services in Nairobi Slums: Successes and Remaining Challenges

By Godfred Adero Adequate neonatal Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) services are critical to ensure that newborn lives are saved and neonatal mortality targets are met. Countless newborn lives are still lost in African countries within the 28-day crucial period following births, and recent estimates from the United Nations show that...

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Levels, Trends and Inequalities in Mortality among 5–19 Year Olds in Tanzania: Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance Study (1995–2022)

For the past two decades, health priorities in Tanzania have focussed on children under-five, leaving behind the older children and adolescents (5–19 years). Understanding mortality patterns beyond 5 years is important in bridging a healthy gap between childhood to adulthood. We aimed to estimate mortality levels, trends, and inequalities among...

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A Series of Briefs on Health Systems and Policy Analysis

Health systems are complex; thus, many research approaches are used understand and assess them. Three new Countdown to 2030 briefs aim to support researchers and policy makers,  to understand the value of and approaches available using health policy and systems research in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health. These briefs address...

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