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Quintuplets soldier on, gain weight, ‘empty’ promises

November 13, 2019 1:31 pm Published by MNH Admin Leave your thoughts

It is almost 12 weeks since news of a woman giving birth to five babies at Iganga General Hospital in... View Article

Reflections from the European congress on tropical medicine and international health, 2019

November 4, 2019 9:06 am Published by Dr Peter Waiswa Leave your thoughts

By Dr Peter Waiswa | The recently concluded 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health shone a light on state-of-the-art... View Article

Safe and unsafe sub regions to be a child in Uganda

October 24, 2019 1:46 pm Published by MNH Admin Leave your thoughts

We conducted an equity analysis using demographic and health survey data under the auspices of Countdown to 2030 for RMNCAH... View Article

Uganda quintuplets survive newborn period; infant and under 5 mortality hurdles lie ahead

September 30, 2019 1:50 pm Published by Kakaire Ayub Kirunda Leave your thoughts

While Iganga District in Busoga Sub-region of Eastern Uganda is synonymous with twin births, a mother giving birth to five... View Article

Easily ‘preventable’ deaths continue to blight Uganda’s war on maternal mortality

September 3, 2019 1:57 pm Published by Kakaire Ayub Kirunda Leave your thoughts

“SOS for Blood gp B+ any centre with this gp please we need rescue We have received a ref in... View Article

Why giving birth makes us equal

September 3, 2019 9:11 am Published by Olga Miltcheva  Leave your thoughts

Olga Miltcheva |  “I used to believe that I understood the reality behind the staggering annual global death toll of 2.8 million pregnant... View Article

Uganda launches guidelines for management of small and sick newborns

July 23, 2019 2:10 pm Published by MNH Admin Leave your thoughts

Ugandan health workers in Hospitals and Health Centre IVs will now have a document to refer to when managing small... View Article

Newborn Special Care Unit wows mentor

July 16, 2019 2:13 pm Published by MNH Admin Leave your thoughts

FIELD FILES | One of our mentors Dr Martha Asiimwe writes following a visit to one the facilities we support: “This... View Article

We need collective effort to reduce maternal deaths

July 3, 2019 9:15 am Published by MNH Admin Leave your thoughts

“Rather than blaming health workers, we should examine our individual and collective efforts towards reducing the avoidable maternal and perinatal... View Article

Ugandan district tries out integrated maternal-child health outreaches, hundreds turn up

June 21, 2019 2:20 pm Published by MNH Admin Leave your thoughts

“When they [health workers] come to the community where we stay, it becomes easier for me to have my child... View Article