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27th February 2025: Safer Births researchers have published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing a 40% reduction in early newborn death* and a 75%

In late June at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) Conference, there was excitement and enthusiasm about a lifesaving program that is helping to save

Riziki Salehe is from the Katoro region of Tanzania. Alreadya mother to an eleven year old child, Riziki had since experienced difficultiesduring pregnancies – with this one being

June 2024 – The 3rd annual stakeholder meeting for SBBC took place in Tanzania. It was well attended – including by decision makers from other countries with high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality.

Hege Ersdal demonstrates part of the Safer Births Bundle of Care to Dr Natalia Kanem, Executive Director in UNFPA and Anne Beate Tvinnereim, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Aid,

TANZANIA, March 2022. Based on the success of the Safer Births Program, a global research collaboration, the Safer Births Bundle of Care (SBBC) received 4.5 million USD in

The Safer Births Bundle of Care project includes digital technologies for large-scale comprehensive data collection of health system processes like facility readiness, dissemination of equipment and training, frequencies

MWANZA, TANZANIA. The first stakeholder meeting for the Safer Births Bundle of Care was held in Mwanza to report on the launch of the program and progress to

As part of the Safer Births contributions to research in the field of newborn resuscitation, new six research articles have recently been published in peer-reviewed journals including a

STAVANGER, NORWAY. Deprivation of oxygen to a newborn during and after birth can lead to birth asphyxia, a leading cause of newborn death, cerebral palsy, and other long-term

WASHINGTON, DC – The World Bank’s Global Financing Facility (GFF) announced five awardees under the Innovation-to-Scale initiative to scale up proven innovations for the reduction of maternal and

Safer Births Project has been chosen by SkatteFUNN, a Norwegian grant for tax reductions to companies working in research and development. In relation to this grant, the Norwegian

Intrapartum-related hypoxia accounts for 30% of neonatal deaths in Tanzania. This has led to the introduction and scaling-up of the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) programme…

Abstract Objective: To characterize, among non-breathing flaccid neonates at delivery, immediate heartrate and responses to ventilation in relation to the clinical diagnosis of fresh stillbirth (FSB) or early neonatal death (END)

Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) is a simulation-based educational program developed to help reduce perinatal mortality worldwide. A one-day HBB training course was not shown to improve clinical management

Jørgen’s presentation “When life is a breath away” was nominated by the audience and the jury as the winner from the Stavanger Region, leading him to represent his work at the final competition in Bergen this fall.  Linde’s presentation included his findings on how his study showed that giving higher volumes when ventilating than the guidelines recommend produces better outcomes.  He also spoke about the importance of using heart rate as a form of feedback during ventilation and various techniques that can be used to optimize bag and mask ventilation.  The judges gave Jørgen’s presentation the top score, and emphasized how important they felt his research was.

Haydom Hospital has recently begun a randomized control trial (RCT) comparing the Upright bag-mask with and without PEEP (positive end-expiratory pressure). PEEP is considered to benefit newborn and

Dr. Monica Thallinger’s work using Upright with Newborn PEEP was recently published in the British Medical Journal. Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) is considered to be beneficial when

Twenty researchers from different parts of the world are now engaged in the Safer Births project. They represent disciplines like neonatology, obstetrics, nursing, mathematics, statistics, physics, human factor

Dr. Monica Thallinger has recently published her research comparing Upright with a traditional bag-mask resuscitator. The study compared ventilation properties and used preference between the new Upright Bag

Not long after the CE-marking certificates were received, the first cartons of Moyos were sent off to Tanzania. To make sure that the midwives were comfortable using the Moyo, selected midwives from Temeke, Muhimbili and Haydom were taken through a training of trainers course using the Moyo training package. Since then provider training have been conducted and Moyo have been introduced in the clinic.