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Business Woman Award goes to EFCNI PAB member Oleksandra Balyasna

Business for preterm infants convinces the jury For the third time the French-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFU) awarded outstanding women for their business concepts. This year, out of 100 candidates, the board selected Oleksandra Balyasna, the founder of Раненько (Ranenko), a company helping preterm babies with appropriate products, meeting their needs, has won the race and became businesswoman of 2021! Oleksandra is also the founder of the Ukrainian parent organisation…
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Promoting good practice in newborn temperature regulation: Dr. Alok Sharma’s story

Prelude The mother was in preterm labour and the baby was about to be born at 24 weeks. As a consultant neonatologist at Southampton University Hospital, this was not an unusual situation for Dr. Alok Sharma. What was perhaps unusual at the time was how Alok was preparing to deal with this preterm birth. Normally babies born at this gestational age are intubated and ventilated immediately but this time, Alok wanted to avoid this. He had noticed time and again…
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Ein Schritt auf dem Weg in ein gesundes Leben – Impfen in der Schwangerschaft

Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat in den letzten Monaten auch das Thema „Impfen“ wieder stärker in das Bewusstsein der Öffentlichkeit gebracht. Nach einer intensiven Entwicklungs- und Testphase sind nun einige Impfstoffe auf dem Markt, die bereits in vielen Ländern zum Einsatz kommen. So steigt auch in Deutschland die Zahl der gegen COVID-19 geimpften Menschen jeden Tag kontinuierlich an. Sowohl in den sozialen Netzwerken als auch den Feuilletons der großen Zeitungen werden beispielsweise die Funktionsweisen der verschiedenen Impfstoffe oder Aspekte der Impfpriorisierung gelegentlich…
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Association between maternal HIV infection and preterm birth

The treatment of HIV with antiretroviral therapies (ARTs) has improved people’s quality of life and extended their life span. This also leads to more HIV-infected women having children, as ARTs also protect the baby from contracting the virus. However, ARTs may cause negative effects on pregnancy outcomes, with increases in preterm birth rates. In the study by Elenga et al., pregnancy outcomes of HIV-positive mothers receiving different types of ART were compared to uninfected…
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Global analysis of neonatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic – a healthcare providers’ perspective

With COVID-19 disrupting neonatal health systems globally, a group of experts undertook a thematic analysis of healthcare providers’ experiences using a disseminated online survey. Results show high levels of stress on healthcare providers, disruption of newborn care practices, and lack of guidelines regarding preterm newborns and babies with low birthweight (LBW) during the pandemic. There is an urgent need to protect life-saving interventions. The implementation of the Every Newborn Action Plan in 2014 by…
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EUPATI welcomes a new fellow: congrats to Livia Nagy

The European Patients’ Academy (EUPATI) was established in 2012 as a pan-European project. It is a programme that provides education and training to patients and patient representatives to increase their capacity and capability to understand and meaningfully contribute to medicines research and development (R&D), and to improve the availability of medical information for patients and other stakeholders. It does so by conducting its established Patient Expert Training Programme which has, until…
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Preterm birth – how can communication be improved with parents?

Shock, trauma, grief, vulnerability, worry – these are just a few words to describe how parents of preterm born babies feel when faced with the often unexpected situation of the early birth of their child. Add to this the need to make sometimes urgent decisions about the future of an early term baby – and this often does not make for fluid and smooth communication between parents and the medical professionals in charge of the care of their baby. Such…
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Supporting Kangaroo Care across Ukraine

We want to take the opportunity to congratulate our partner parent organisation in Ukraine, “Ranni Ptashky – Early Birds” on another successfully completed project to improve the situation of preterm born babies in Ukraine. Last year in November, “Ranni Ptashky” partnered with Kimberly-Clark Ukraine to use the global momentum around World Prematurity Day 2020 for positive change and improve the situation in NICUs across Ukraine. Kimberly-Clark Ukraine sold nappies from TM Huggies, donating 5 Ukrainian Hryvnia (HUA) per package to…
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Paediatric clinical trials: industry and non-industry bringing different strengths together

Clinical trials are an essential part of advancing knowledge and improving healthcare worldwide. Advances in paediatric research across the globe to improve the lives of babies, children and young people have dramatically reduced rates in morbidity and mortality and increased the quality of life, for example, reducing sudden infant death, increasing the life expectancy for children with thalassemia, cystic fibrosis etc. Clinical trials within the paediatric population can be conducted as…
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Making infant- and family-centred developmental care a reality – constructions for a family room well underway at Dritter Orden hospital in Munich

Implementing infant- and family-centred developmental care at hospitals not only depends on the staff’s support of more inclusive practices. It also requires physical changes in how buildings are constructed and how rooms are partitioned and furnished. These changes can be fairly costly and often take time to implement because financial and architectural challenges must be considered and negotiated first. This is why we are delighted to report that the Munich hospital Dritter Orden has…
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