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Have you got data on follow-up of children after Group B Streptococcus infection?

By Anjuli Borgonha in Home page blogs B Theme, Home page C Theme, Theme C | May 17, 2018 | Comments Off on Have you got data on follow-up of children after Group B Streptococcus infection?

By Professor Joy Lawn,  LSHTM
What data do we have regarding GBS?
Group B Streptococcus (GBS; Streptococcus agalactiae) is a leading cause of infant sepsis and meningitis. First systematic estimates of the worldwide GBS burden (presented in a recent publication series in Clinical Infectious Diseases 2017 Vol 65) have identified…

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MARCH Report & Strategy 2018-20: Looking to the past to inform the future of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health worldwide

By Anjuli Borgonha in Home page blogs A Theme, Home page blogs B Theme, Home page C Theme | May 8, 2018 | Comments Off on MARCH Report & Strategy 2018-20: Looking to the past to inform the future of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health worldwide

On 22nd May 2018 the MARCH Centre will hold a key event to mark the launch of the new Centre report. The event is on ‘Next Generation: Shaping the future of health research for women, children & young people’ and will ask:

If we want to impact the health of…

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Newborns are newborn on the global agenda

By Anjuli Borgonha in Home page blogs B Theme, Home page C Theme, Theme C | February 20, 2018 | Comments Off on Newborns are newborn on the global agenda

By Professor Joy Lawn, MARCH Centre Director

 
Newborns are newborn on the global agenda; yet over 5,000 newborn deaths could be prevented every day.
 

2.6 million newborn deaths happen every year, 7000 per day. For the first time in history we have a specific goal in…

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