Healthcare Innovation Award winners influencing approaches to healthcare for children and newborns - GSK

While renewing call for applications, GSK and Save the Children have announced previous winners  of the Health Innovation Awards are attracting interest and support from national governments to help improve survival rates of newborns and children under five in developing countries.

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Gemalto joins GSMA pan-African mHealth Initiative

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, provides its support to the GSMA pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI), a mobile ecosystem that aims to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. 

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Omomi app seeks to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health

Tackling the high rate of child mortality, especially among infants below 5 years is one of the reasons for launching Omomi app, the developers told HealthNewsNG.com.

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Enugu state government slammed for failing to fund maternal, newborn and child health

Focal persons and officers-in-charge of different health centres in Enugu State have lamented the inability of local government council chairmen in the state to pay their counterpart funds in the concluded first round of 2014 Maternal Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW) in the state.

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Nigerian children at greater risk of developing cardiovascular diseases - experts

There are strong indications that young Nigerians are now at great risk of developing cardiovascular diseases which currently accounts for one- third of all deaths worldwide.

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Free treatment for 1million children in Jigawa, northern Nigeria

As part of activities marking this year's Maternal and Child Survival health Week in the state, Jigawa state government has said about 1million children had benefited from its free treatment service within 6 days.

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Our children are getting fatter - WHO

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) has decried the global increase in childhood obesity. She said this in her opening address to the 67th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Nigeria among worst places for pregnancy and childbirth complications - UN

A new report by the United Nations revealed that Nigeria is one of the worst places with high risks of pregnancy and childbirth complications.

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UNFPA raises concern over high maternal and child mortality rate in Nigeria

The acting Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Nigeria, Mr. Omolaso Omosehin, has expressed concerns over the high rate of maternal and child mortality in Nigeria. The concern was raised at the official donation of medical equipments to the Lagos state government.

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Closing the gap between diarrhea care of African children could save 20,000 lives - new study

Young children suffering from diarrheal diseases are less likely to receive life-saving oral rehydration therapy (ORT) if they seek treatment at private, for-profit clinics, according to the first-ever, large-scale study of child diarrhea treatment practices in sub-Saharan Africa. 

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