Newborn Health: From Advocacy to Scale
January 7
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On January 7, USAID/BASICS hosted Newborn Health: From Advocacy to Scale at the Arlington offices of Management Sciences for Health.
Newborn Health: From Advocacy to Scale was led by Drs. Indira Narayanan and Goldy Mazia, who have worked on newborn health programs in 13 countries. Among a host of issues, they discussed: key components and implementation strategies related to Essential Newborn Care; integrated programs, including how quality maternal and newborn health services were integrated with the PMTCT program in Swaziland; the importance of linking AMSTL with ENC, including resuscitation, and; innovative activities where distance learning techniques were linked with adapted collaborative and quality improvement strategies to cover selected countries under a regional umbrella in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The presentation also featured recommendations for effective programming that matches current needs in the developing world and organizational approaches that can meet them.