Safe Childbirth and Newborn Care
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Safe Childbirth Project in Azerbaijan Funded by GlaxoSmithKline

In 2003 GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, awarded funding to HealthProm to provide further education for doctors and midwives in Baku and surrounding refugee camps. This three-year programme is part of a national reproductive health strategy developed in conjunction with the Azerbaijan Health Ministry and Azeri NGO, Family and Society. It is targeted at the refugees from the ongoing conflict with neighbouring Armenia, who now live around the capital city Baku, and follows the success of previous HealthProm projects on a smaller-scale.

The aim of the project is to create sustainable developments in the health status of mothers and their babies in the country. As a result, key staff has been trained in developing facilities and services within the refugee community and in local referral hospitals, and have received guidance on providing essential basic equipment and materials for prenatal, childbirth and neonatal care

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