Background: In 1988, WHO estimated around 787,000 newborns deaths due to neonatal tetanus. Despite few success stories majority of the Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) are still struggling to ...

Becton, Dickinson and Co. committed $1 million over the next five years to fight maternal and neonatal tetanus with UNICEF USA. This builds on the Franklin Lakes-based medical technology company’s ...

UNICEF and partners are working to prevent maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), an excruciating disease that kills tens of thousands of infants every year. Babra, 36 and pregnant with her eighth child ...

In 2023, the World Health Organization announced that Mali had successfully eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), an excruciating disease that kills tens of thousands of infants every year.

Some people never discover their mission in life. But Alan Penn did at age six. July 9, 2011— -- Some people never discover their mission in life. Others do, but usually not at the tender age of ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that all its member countries in the Southeast Asian region have eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus. Neonatal tetanus, a form of generalized tetanus, ...

In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him "Baby Boy") in Assam's Sivasagar district could not be given his feed because he had lockjaw his face muscles went rigid, making it impossible for him to ...

World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Bihar free of maternal and neonatal tetanus. Though the number of deaths is low, high mortality rate was a major concern. Poor rate of institutional ...

In this section we have described the salient interventions for reducing neonatal mortality rate due to neonatal tetanus based on an analysis of these 6 studies (Table 1). Feasibility of ...

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced a $1 million commitment over five years ...