The ethical, economic, and developmental imperative to prevent small vulnerable newborns and stillbirths: essential actions to improve the country and global response

Affiliations

• ¹ Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² BetterBirth Program, Ariadne Labs, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Condon, MT, USA.
• ⁴ Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁶ Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Botswana, Botswana, Africa; Effective Care Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
• ⁸ Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ⁹ Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹⁰ Sight and Life, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
• ¹² Center for Child, Adolescent, and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
• ¹³ Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.