User fees is a major barrier to healthcare, including maternal and newborn care in Kenya.
Articles on Neonatal mortality
Displaying all articles
A child born in sub-Saharan Africa or Southern Asia is 10 times more likely to die in the first month of life than a child born in a rich country.
Most women feel they are unable to ask health professionals questions. And only half were consistently asked if they had questions.
Mozambique has one of the highest maternal death rates in the world. Researchers hope to reduce this, with an ambitious project aimed at empowering women and girls.
In developed countries, the main causes of preterm deaths are well known and studied.But in low resource countries, the causes are much less understood.
Africa faces the monumental task of reducing its maternal deaths by three-quarters if it is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals around maternal mortality.
Top contributors
-
Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan
-
Professor of Paediatrics, Addis Ababa University
-
Professor of Global Health and Social Statistics, University of Southampton
-
Health Policy and Health Economics researcher and a Honorary Researcher at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent
-
Associate professor, University of California, San Francisco
-
Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
-
Communications Specialist, University of California, San Francisco