By Joseph Odoi In a significant stride towards improving maternal healthcare outcomes, a recent study conducted by researchers has shown that an integrated intervention consisting of peer support, mobile phone messaging, and provision of mama kits at the household level is successful in increasing the proportion of facility-based births. This groundbreaking research comes at a […]
Welcome to this exclusive interview with Prof. Peter Waiswa, lead expert from the Makerere University Centre of Excellence for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. Dr. Victoria Nakibuuka from St. Francis Nsambya Hospital, and Dr. Jesca Nsungwa from Ministry of Health Uganda. In this video, they discuss a groundbreaking innovation in Uganda’s healthcare landscape: the country’s […]
By Judith Grace Amoit KAMPALA– Newborn experts stress the need to intensify efforts aimed at saving newborns around the time of birth, according to recent developments in Uganda’s healthcare landscape. Results from the newly released Uganda Demographic Health Survey 2022 show that neonatal mortality has slightly reduced from 27/1000 live birth over the last decade […]
MakSPH, Uganda MoH extend newborn technical support to Mityana District By Judith Grace Amoit The Maternal and Newborn and Child Health Centre of Excellence at Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) recently supported the Uganda Ministry of Health’s National Newborn Steering Committee to train health workers in Mityana on essential newborn care, resuscitation techniques […]