Journalist-Kenya
[NAIROBI] A combination of better healthcare
and community mobilisation can improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns and also
reduce newborn mortality, says a new study
The
five-year programme conducted in Malawi to improve the quality of
care for mothers and newborns found that it reduced newborn mortality by 30
percent and saved at least 1,000 newborn lives in rural area.
Carried
out in three rural districts in Malawi
with a combined population of more than two million, the study was designed to
test whether a combined effort to increase both community awareness and
strategies for perinatal care and to improve the quality of healthcare would be more effective than either
one
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