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Author: Stefan Swartling Peterson

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Racing the clock to save mothers and protect newborns in Uganda

Racing the clock to save mothers and protect newborns in Uganda

Impact

By Stefan Swartling Peterson

“We used to think that when the mother has swollen feet she is pregnant with twins, but now we know that when we see a mother with swollen feet, it is important for that mother to go to the health unit.” In 2015, 19 out of every 1,000 babies born in Uganda died within their first 28 days of life – 30,000 newborns in total. Many… Read more →←
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Commitment and action – for every newborn

Commitment and action – for every newborn

Data and research

By Stefan Swartling Peterson, Anthony Costello

Last year, close to one million babies died on their first day of life, and 2.7 million during their first 28 days. Almost half of all under-five deaths took place during this newborn period. And 2.6 million babies were stillborn. These first hours, days and weeks constitute the most dangerous period in a human life. In the poorest, most… Read more →←
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Improving care for mothers and babies in Malawi

Improving care for mothers and babies in Malawi

Experts speak

By Stefan Swartling Peterson, Johannes Wedenig

No one is more vulnerable than a newborn baby. Newborns are totally dependent on their mothers. And their mothers, in turn, rely on skilled doctors and nurses, with access to working equipment, medicines, infrastructure, and information systems. When mothers give birth at home, without access to a skilled birth attendant, the chance that… Read more →←
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Remembering Hans Rosling: friend, teacher, inspiration

Remembering Hans Rosling: friend, teacher, inspiration

Big picture

By Stefan Swartling Peterson

Hans Rosling, who died last Tuesday, was my friend and mentor for 25 years. He was a man who cared about facts. He was passionate about statistics. He pioneered new ways of visualizing data, bringing dry figures to colourful life. But Hans’ primary mission was not about data, it was about people. Hans recognized that to do good, we… Read more →←
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Universal health coverage for healthy societies

Universal health coverage for healthy societies

Impact

By Stefan Swartling Peterson

Monday 12 December is Universal Health Coverage day, an annual focus for the growing movement toward health coverage for all. In 2015, almost 6 million children died before reaching age five – more than 16,000 every single day. Around 300,000 women died due to complications of pregnancy and delivery in the same year. Most of these… Read more →←
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Walking the line between antimicrobial access and excess

Walking the line between antimicrobial access and excess

Experts speak

By Stefan Swartling Peterson

Story also available in: 中文
Antimicrobial resistance, the growing ineffectiveness of antibiotics and anti-microbial drugs, is an increasingly visible topic on the global health agenda. It poses an enormous threat to the global fight against disease, threatening to render ineffective many of the drugs we have used to fight infection since penicillin’s discovery… Read more →←
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