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Newborn mortality and fresh stillbirth rates in Tanzania after helping babies breathe training.

• Georgina Msemo, Augustine W Massawe, +7 authors Jeffrey M Perlman
• Pediatrics
• 2013

BACKGROUND Early neonatal mortality has remained high and unchanged for many years in Tanzania, a resource-limited country. Helping Babies Breathe (HBB), a novel educational program using basic… (More)

Tanzania's countdown to 2015: an analysis of two decades of progress and gaps for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, to inform priorities for post-2015.

• Hoviyeh Afnan-Holmes, Moke Tito Nyambita Magoma, +10 authors Joy E. Lawn
• The Lancet. Global health
• 2015

BACKGROUND Tanzania is on track to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 for child survival, but is making insufficient progress for newborn survival and maternal health (MDG 5) and family… (More)

Performance of a modified HIV-1 p24 antigen assay for early diagnosis of HIV-1 infection in infants and prediction of mother-to-infant transmission of HIV-1 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

• Eligius F. Lyamuya, Ulla Bredberg-Rådén, +8 authors Gunnel Biberfeld
• Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes…
• 1996

The aim of this study was to determine the utility of an amplified human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) p24 antigen (ag) assay using heated plasma or serum samples for the early diagnosis of… (More)

Countdown to 2015 country case studies: what have we learned about processes and progress towards MDGs 4 and 5?

• Corrina Moucheraud, Helen C Owen, +35 authors Georgina Msemo
• BMC public health
• 2016

BACKGROUND Countdown to 2015 was a multi-institution consortium tracking progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. Case studies to explore factors contributing to progress (or… (More)

Cost-Effectiveness of the “Helping Babies Breathe” Program in a Missionary Hospital in Rural Tanzania

• Corinna Vossius, Editha Lotto, +4 authors Hege Langli Ersdal
• PloS one
• 2014

OBJECTIVE The Helping Babies Breathe" (HBB) program is an evidence-based curriculum in basic neonatal care and resuscitation, utilizing simulation-based training to educate large numbers of birth… (More)

Subnational variation for care at birth in Tanzania: is this explained by place, people, money or drugs?

• Corinne E. Armstrong, Melisa Martínez-Álvarez, +10 authors Joy E. Lawn
• BMC public health
• 2016

BACKGROUND Tanzania achieved the Millennium Development Goal for child survival, yet made insufficient progress for maternal and neonatal survival and stillbirths, due to low coverage and quality of… (More)

Predisposing factors associated with stillbirth in Tanzania.

• Hussein Kidanto, Georgina Msemo, Donan Mmbando, Neema Rusibamayila, Hege Langli Ersdal, Jeffrey M Perlman
• International journal of gynaecology and…
• 2015

OBJECTIVE To determine whether specific medical conditions and/or fetal compromise during labor are associated with fresh stillbirth (FSB), and whether absent fetal heart rate (FHR) before delivery… (More)

Successful implementation of Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive programs—An Utstein formula for newborn and maternal survival

• Hege Langli Ersdal, N. Singhal, +7 authors Susan Niermeyer
• PloS one
• 2017

Globally, the burden of deaths and illness is still unacceptably high at the day of birth. Annually, approximately 300.000 women die related to childbirth, 2.7 million babies die within their first… (More)

Availability , Coverage and Geographical Distribution of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care Services in Tanzania Mainland

• Projestine Selestine Muganyizi, Edward S Maswanya, +5 authors Georgina Msemo
• 2017

In order to assess the availability of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC) services in Tanzania Mainland, a Cross-sectional survey of a National sample of obstetric care facilities was… (More)

Validation of a novel tool for assessing newborn resuscitation skills among birth attendants trained by the Helping Babies Breathe program.

• Jonathan S Reisman, Narra Martineau, +10 authors Brett D Nelson
• International journal of gynaecology and…
• 2015

OBJECTIVE To validate a simplified objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) tool for evaluating the competency of birth attendants in low-resource countries who have been trained in neonatal… (More)

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