In collaboration with the Department of Health (DOH), the Local Government Units (LGU), and the Rural Health Units (RHUs), the project ensures that adolescent girls can access information on sexual and reproductive health, receive quality antenatal care, basic emergency obstetric care, and postnatal care for mother and newborn in an adolescent friendly health facility.
Some interventions target specifically mothers, while others address both mothers and newborns, in a combination of elements across the continuum of care.
Studies of other groups exposed to multiple POPs, including PCBs, have also observed differences in lymphocyte subsets relative to comparison groups, including breast-fed Japanese (Nagayama et al. 1998) and Inuit babies (Dewailly et al. 2000) and newborns in a Quebec subsistence fishing community (Belles-Isles et al. 2002).
Caring for woman and newborns in an environment lacking essential drugs and equipment to save lives if a complication occurs is particularly stressful and de-motivating.
Mothers and newborns in all three groups also received a basic community-based package of essential newborn care (described below).
During training, data collectors will be required to conduct an observed interaction with a mother and newborn in the community to ensure standardization and quality data collection.
Even with a toddler and newborn in tow, the Weisfelds, who live on the Upper West Side and own a weekend house in Rhinebeck, N.Y., remain discerning diners.
BTV-like orbivirus RNA and antibodies were detected in several adult and newborn goats in a herd in the northeastern part of Switzerland (St. Gallen Canton) (V. Chaignat et al., unpub. data).
However, the neonatal mortality rates have remained almost static from 56 to 54 per 1000 live births.[20] With this background of extensive efforts made over the years we were interested in assessing the neonatal mortality and practices of women in relation to care during pregnancy, delivery and for newborn in a squatter settlement of Karachi, Pakistan.
A team member visited participating women and newborns in hospital on a daily basis.
