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The rate of stillbirth in the US is stubbornly high. Routine fetal autopsies for stillbirths can help reveal what’s causing them.
The new study reinforces warnings from doctors about abortion laws with limited or no exceptions.
Nigeria needs to adopt a multi-faceted approach that addresses the root causes of child malnutrition.
Questions about co-sleeping are often drowned out in a whirlwind of information and opinions. But science can provide some answers.
Africa has made good progress towards reducing maternal mortality and newborn deaths over the past decade. But climate change is reversing the gains.
A March of Dimes report gave the US a grade of D+ for maternal and infant health care, highlighting that the national preterm birth rate hit 10.5% in 2021, a record 15-year high.
There have been disruptions. But national malaria control programmes have shown impressive resilience.
Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to hot conditions. They have a limited ability to control their body temperature.
Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
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.
The provision of better health services and social grants has aided rural women’s progress in South Africa, but there are still tremendous needs to be met.
Around the globe, 823,000 child deaths could be prevented annually with appropriate breastfeeding. Formula makers continue to defy a 40-year-old international code on marketing their product.
Lost revenue is money that could be spent on lifting people out of poverty.
Our findings provide an additional tool for determining what to prioritise, where to target and when to intervene.
COVID-19 has overwhelmed India’s hospitals partly because decades of under-investment in public health have left the country with one of the most privatised health systems in the world.
Black Americans have worse health outcomes by many measures. To draw attention to that fact, the CDC and communities across the country have called racism a public health threat.
The health and wellbeing effects will go beyond the direct impact of war-related fatalities, and are likely to last for years after peace is fully restored.
Health surveillance assistants provide services in village clinics, mainly by assessing signs and symptoms in sick children. An electronic community case management app could make their job easier.
Children have made many sacrifices because of the country’s COVID-19 response, including social isolation, lack of education opportunities and reduced access to nutrition programmes.
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Senior postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
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Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons) student; global health researcher, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Global Health Systems, The University of Queensland
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Afrobarometer Senior Analyst/Methodologist, University of Cape Town
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Assistant Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Dundee
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Director, Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategy Extramural Unit, SAMRC, University of Pretoria
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Head, Population Health Unit, KEMRI, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Doctoral Researcher in Economic History, Lund University
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Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Health Sciences,, University of KwaZulu-Natal