📢 To mark #WorldSepsisDay, catch our webinar on AMR, babies and bugs in Africa! • AMR’s impact on newborn care • HCAI pathway Launch • Outbreak responses across Africa • Vaccine role in reducing antibiotics 🎥 Watch here: newborntoolkit.org/events/babie...

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Exciting webinar on 9th Sept #worldsepsisday #AMR #newborn @gardp.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social

"The future of newborns is in Africa and we are the people who have to ensure they survive and thrive" Dr Alex Stevenson opening first conference of African Neonatal Association in Kigali

PUBLICATION ALERT: Changes in service readiness across 65 facilities in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Malawi dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @joylawn.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-march.bsky.social

Comment 2: #Neonatology’s future: securing most impact where most #newborn infants die by Msandeni Chiume @joylawn.bsky.social‬ & colleagues buff.ly/IcuIW03 "Medical technology must advance hand in hand with system-wide attention to sustainability..."

📢 TUES!! Pls share widely! 🔎 Launch #BornTooSoon Supplement: progress, priorities + pivots for preterm birth. Hosted by PMNCH Opening Dr Tedros Many exciting speakers! Live Fr + Spanish translation! 📆24 June 2025 🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm WAT/BST| 8am EST |2pm CET 👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/born-...

In our Reflections section, an Essay by Anne Kamphuis, Lungile Jafta, and Tom Jacobs on behalf of the Penta Youth Trials Board 💫 Empowering young voices in clinical research: co-creation of an educational video to support informed assent Read👉 buff.ly/96JEBnK Watch 👉 buff.ly/8e6bTyd

It's #ToolkitTuesday! 🛠️ This week, we take a look at the paper that inspired our Research Funding Map: a systemic analysis of levels and trends in research funding for newborn health and stillbirths. Find out more 👉 newborntoolkit.org/reading/rese...

Great video of #IPA2025 7000 delegates fr 1 million #Pediatricians around 🌎 Congrats Naveen Thacker + team. Priviledge to speak on 2 plenaries + 1 parallel session. Many colleagues + friends and get a taster of Mexico www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bjt... @lancetchildadol.bsky.social

False dichotomy of defence spending vs development investment Thoughtful, eloquent piece by @martinmckee.bsky.social @kentbuse.bsky.social in @bmj.com Hope is read by politicians as well as us who see the impact every day of rapid cuts in aid Please share widely @peterstefanovic.bsky.social

War on science War on peace

Calendar highlight for 2026! 2nd International Maternal Newborn Health Conference. Looking fw to this in Nairobi Movement not a moment.. #IMNHC2026 @newborntoolkit.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @ciffchild.bsky.social @who.int

📢 Happy World KMC Day! To mark #WorldKMCDay, we hosted a dynamic webinar on high-quality KMC! 🔹 Latest updates from WHO 🔹 Launch of the KMC Quality Action Pathway - newborntoolkit.org/action-pathw... 🔹 Practical country examples&more! 🎥 Watch & get slides: buff.ly/3eU4y7c

On #WorldKMCday, meet Dr Sheila Oyella — a Ugandan paediatrician who became a preemie mum overnight when her baby arrived 11 weeks early, weighing just 1390g. Her story shows the power of Kangaroo Mother Care 💛 Learn more: newborntoolkit.org/in_practice/...

Trump2.0 1st 100 days. Last days for 1000s around world with #HIV due to PEPFAR demise. Even more for newborns, children with programmes slashed even more. Plus deaths in USA with sliding vaccine protection. More unconsciable then crashing the economy even if gets less news

📢 Join us for our next Newborn Toolkit webinar! 🔎 “Kangaroo Mother Care with quality: Duration, Nutrition and Data That Matter” With Live French translation! 📆13th May , 2025 🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm WAT/BST| 8am EST 👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/maxim...

Pls join event and share. Countdown to 2030 Lancet Report analysing change for RMNCAH over last decade. Many important findings and actions of relevance for all of us. Important data for use esp across Africa.

Heartbreaking measles in USA. 1st deaths for >10 years. As a paediatrician in West Africa mid-1990s measles epidemic we saw wards of very sick children, deaths every day. Even 5yrs later deaths rare with measles vaccine high coverage. World going backwards = preventable deaths in USA + worldwide

Happy Birth Day! Welcome @thelancet.bsky.social new journal on Obstetrics, Gynae & health! Just in time for @who.int year of focus on maternal, newborn health and preparing stillbirths #HopefulFutures #HealthyBeginnings #WHD2025

Investing in maternal and newborn health is an investment in the future, not a cost. It supports: - Lifelong health - Healthy societies - #HopefulFutures Improving the health of women and babies means collaborating and investing in #HealthForAll.

Birth of Partnership Accelerating Newborn Survival Across Africa (PANSAA) Thanks @alignmnh.bsky.social for supporting this birth! @newborntoolkit.bsky.social #worldhealthday #healthforall

Deaths.. and life Birth on the street #myanmarquake Moment baby is born on street after quake evacuation - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Currently 2 female presidents on African continent #Nambia #Tanzania. Both standing up for vulnerable citizens. One day #USA? Hoping for this century... #IWD #democracy @unwomen.bsky.social BBC News - Namibia swears in first female president www.bbc.com/news/article...

US withdrawal from @WHO only 2 months ago already feels like old news.. Yet major implications with more to come especially when next major infection outbreak comes Insightful thread and article worth reading Bottom line: In an interconnected world, no nation is safe until all are protected.

Good news under5 deaths reduced again but @ risk now Bad news neonatal deaths stuck at 2.3mill for 3 yrs. Stillbirths 1.9mill Worse news Africa neonatal deaths 1.1mill static for decades Saddest news, almost all preventable. Unacceptable. Time for change. Pls share www.unicef.org/rosa/press-r...

Currently 2 female presidents on African continent #Nambia #Tanzania. Both standing up for vulnerable citizens. One day #USA? Hoping for this century... #IWD #democracy @unwomen.bsky.social BBC News - Namibia swears in first female president www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Happening tomorrow 📆20 March ⏰17.30 Don't miss what promises to be an insightful and fascinating lecture. Free and open to all. @joylawn.bsky.social @thelancet.bsky.social @theunion-tblh.bsky.social @linda-gailb.bsky.social @rachaelburke.bsky.social

Two new Profiles capture the work of Rachael Burke and Aliasgar Esmail, joint winners of the 2024 Stephen Lawn TB–HIV Research Leadership Prize🧵⤵️

Please join and share widely! Speaker @WHO head of #TB Thursday 20th 5.30pm UK time F2F @LSHTM or on zoom Partnership in memory of #StephenLawn @LSHTM_TB @DTHF_SA @TheUnion_TBLH @TogunToyin @LindaGailBekker

Thank you @anneliesedodds.bsky.social What courage + integrity looks like. More such voices needed. #aidcuts @kierstarmerpm.bsky.social BBC News - Minister Anneliese Dodds quits over aid cuts www.bbc.com/news/article...

2 months left until #PSI2025 - a unique forum for high-impact #PerinatalResearch that transforms care for #mothers and #babies Register now to foster meaningful dialogue and multidisciplinary exchange with world-renowned experts 👉 bit.ly/49qCwuI @neenamodi1.bsky.social @joylawn.bsky.social

More court cases needed so truth comes out #USAID @martinmckee.bsky.social

America not 1st for %GDP invested in global development. Norway >1% UK 0.5% USA was 24% Axing #USAID = more deaths for world's most vulnerable = more risks for America including epidemics True strength does not look this. Heartbreaking. Pls share + speak up www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 31 MILLION!👏 LETS DO THIS!

#PSI2025 features distinguished keynote speakers whose work addresses critical challenges in #maternal and #newborn health, offering both practical solutions and thought-provoking perspectives Meet Prof. @joylawn.bsky.social who will be joining us in #Venice! Register here👉 : bit.ly/49qCwuI

Live now! Leaders in evidence + action for hosp leadership #QI fr 3 continents, all levels: - Prof Mwapasa, Malawi - Dr Rajesh Mehta, India - Dr Sonia Isoyama, Brazil - Milly Alooh biomed engineer star MC fab Dr Natasha Rhoda Great insights! Join or watch on catchup www.newborntoolkit.org

📢 Join us for our first Newborn Toolkit webinar in 2025! 🔎 “Leading change at hospital level : Building Strong Teams for Vulnerable Newborns” with live French translation! 📆28th January 2025 🕐 4pm EAT| 1pm GMT| 8am EST 👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/leadi...

Powering the world with clean energy is common sense. It will secure the future for our grandchildren. The clean energy transformation is - and remains - unstoppable www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...

Great opportunity! Needed now more than ever.. 50 scholarships for candidates from #Africa MSc in #SHR @lshtm.bsky.social Pls share widely! @pmnch.bsky.social @newborntoolkit.bsky.social @kentbuse.bsky.social @debrajacksonnole.bsky.social

Thank you @Reuters covering today's @TheLancet paper. Shocking estimate >60000 Gaza deaths, 59% women + children Not surprising deaths higher than hospital reporting system given hospitals hit, death cert system affected etc. Important work by our colleague @Z_Jamaluddine @LSHTM

RIP #JimmyCarter You will be missed. Our world needs more leaders like you *Humble proactive global peacekeeping @Cartercentre *House builder with @HabitatforHumanity *Health equity #GuineaWorm Honoured to meet 2002 @Emoryuni + share my childhood experience having guinea worm in #Karamoja Uganda