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26 March 2024

Guaranteed by the state: Empowering families to know and exercise their rights

Guest article by Oleksandra Balyasna, Head of partner parent organisation "Early Birds" in Ukraine and member of the EFCNI Parent and Patient Advisory Board. Knowing your rights guaranteed and provided...

25 March 2024

Making skin-to-skin care a reality for families in need with “ConTact”

Guest article by Professor Concepción Gómez Esteban, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, and President of APREM, one of EFCNI’s esteemed partner parent organisations in Spain. In 2022, APREM initiated an innovative...

20 March 2024

Neonatal care through the ages: The impressive journey of infant and family-centred developmental care in Denmark

A guest article by Sarah Fügenschuh When we imagine modern neonatal care, in industrialised nations in particular, we might think of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) equipped with state-of-the-art technical...

26 February 2024

Development of a WHO Core Outcome Set (COS) for maternal and perinatal health for the next epidemic or pandemic: involvement of EFCNI in the process

EFCNI contributes to efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop a Core Outcome Set (COS) for maternal and perinatal health in anticipation of future epidemics or pandemics. Joining...

30 January 2024

Putting the preterm infant in the centre of all care: Impressions from Erasmus Hospital, Brussels

Guest article by Lívia Nagy Bonnard, founding member of “Melletted a helyem Egyesület” – “Right(s) Beside You Association” in English – and a member of the Parent, Patient and Public...

29 November 2023

Know the facts in a world full of infectious respiratory viruses

Explore our corporate partner AstraZeneca's new one-stop web resource for respiratory virus knowledge and try the symptom comparator right away. It's that time of year again when coughs and...

28 November 2023

Celebrating World Prematurity Day 2023 – with a congress and an award

Guest article by Lucie Žáčková, Chairwoman and Executive Director of parent organisation Nedoklubko in the Czech Republic. World Prematurity Day was first celebrated in the Czech Republic in 2010....

20 November 2023

Putting the needs of preterm babies on the political agenda in Romania

Guest article by Diana Gamulescu, Co-founder and President of Asociatia Prematurilor in Romania. Preterm birth as health challenge in Romania In Romania, over 20,000 babies are born preterm each year,...

19 October 2023

Spenden statt Geschenke

Europaabgeordnete Angelika Niebler unterstützt SAVE-Projekt am LMU Klinikum (see English translation below) „Geben ist seliger denn Nehmen“ – so kann man die großzügige und großherzige Tat überschreiben, die der Neonatologie...

27 September 2023

Angels for parents with empty arms

Guest article by Veronika Kmetóny Gazdová of our Slovakian partner from parent organisation Malíček. Preterm birth is a risk for both the woman and the baby. The fragility of...

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