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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.

VANCOUVER, CANADA. More and more research is coming out of the data collected at Haydom and Muhibili. This week at one of the largest medical conferences, the World

How can newborn ventilation be improved? The Safer Births partnership, a collaboration of midwives, doctors, researchers and developers from Tanzania and Norway, believes the key to improvement is with frequent training. From March 18 to 20, 2015, key stakeholders gathered in Stavanger to discuss training concepts, real life experiences, equipment opportunities, and recent research, all related to newborn ventilation. 

The second Safer Births annual meeting is being held in Haydom Lutheran Hospital on the 1-5th of October 2014. Over 20 researchers, developers and health workers are gathering

Out of 500 applications, the  MOYO- Improved Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring for Safer Births project, was one of 30 award nominees for the Saving Lives at Birth (SLAB) Grand Challenge. This was announced at the DevelopmentXChange 2014 in Washington on 1 August.

Amongst 500 applicants, Laerdal Global Health’s Fetal Heart Rate Monitor, Moyo, has been selected as one of 52 finalists in the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge taking

The Pediatric Academic Societies is arranging their joint meeting in Vancouver and several representatives from the Safer Birth project will attend. Dr. Hege Ersdal has 3 posters accepted

On the 27th of March, Laerdal Global Health submitted an application for funding to the prestigious Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge. The project proposed is expanding the