Where possible, maternal and newborn management units, technical coordination bodies, and funding streams should be merged, and serious efforts made to ensure effectiveness and coherent delivery of the full package of needed interventions, including those currently "belonging" to other programs.
In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 69% of pregnant women receive at least one antenatal care (ANC) visit, and 44% receive at least four ANC visits and the full package of key interventions [ 1].
National programmes should provide all HIV-exposed infants and their mothers with a full package of health-related interventions, with strong links to HIV prevention, treatment and care services.
The contact point of a skilled birth attendant is less effective without the full package of evidence-based, effective interventions around the time of birth including simple interventions, e.g. the monitoring of labour and the provision of basic newborn care, or more complex interventions, e.g. the provision of caesarean section and neonatal resuscitation.
Evidence-based, impact-driven policy and financial commitments should be a feature of the October moment, and Ministers should show up ready to take action on nutrition and the full package of early childhood development interventions.
The SAHACOM is among a few comprehensive community-based interventions providing a full package of HIV and SRH services to key populations in developing countries.
Yet despite advances in knowledge of effective interventions to save lives of HIV-exposed infants, many infants do not access the full package of services because of loss to follow-up (LTFU) [8 11].
Many major airlines use the full package of Swift options.
I stood at the doorway and handed out a full package of my business cards.
