Shelly-Ann Dakarai is a neonatologist and the co-founder and president of the Caribbean Health Collaborative (CHC). Shelly-Ann shares how NEST360’s resources helped her country’s implementation of small and sick newborn care.
NEST360 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Neonatal Association (ANA) to enhance their joint partnership based on a shared purpose for every newborn in every African country to be able to survive and thrive, with the right small and sick newborn care.
To deliver high-quality care for every small and sick newborn, we need to have the right space, people, and devices – backed by supportive leadership and data for action. Most approaches to SSNC have focused on single interventions, but most newborns will have more than one problem and therefore require multiple interventions.
Recently, Rice360 fellow, Natalie Mitchell, traveled to Kenya to work with our colleagues at Nairobi to begin a clinical study on Celsi Monitor, a low-cost portable device used to continuously monitor a newborn’s body temperature. The following is her account of her time in Kenya.
By untangling complicated supply chain challenges, these global health experts are helping to bring life-saving technologies to doctors in four African nations — and counting.
The Comprehensive Newborn Care Protocols provide guidance on newborn care to clinicians and nurses. These protocols in this handbook are underpinned on the ‘Newborn Care Quality Statements’ outlined in this handbook.
The 8th edition of the Newborn Technology Landscape is now live. There has been exciting growth across the 8th Edition as the Landscape now features over 100 different newborn technologies!
World Prematurity Day is an international day to raise awareness for babies who are born too soon. This year with partners around the world we highlighted Kangaroo Mother Care. Preterm birth continues to be the leading contributor to under-5 deaths globally, being responsible for almost half of all under-5 deaths in 2021. Immediate initiation of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) has shown to significantly decrease newborn mortality. Skin-to-skin contact’s benefits includes improved thermal regulation, infection prevention, improved breast feeding, positive facilitation of physiological, behavioral, psychosocial, and neurodevelopment, and a reduced risk of neonatal mortality.
A summary of activities from quarter 3 and quarter 4 in each NEST360 country. Our teams have made incredible progress this year towards sustainability and institutionalizing NEST in small and sick newborn care.