Simple measures can prevent a million baby deaths a year

Simple measures can prevent a million baby deaths a year – study

By Agence France-Presse

May 09, 2023 1:27 pm

PARIS: Providing simple and cheap healthcare measures to pregnant women — such as offering aspirin — could prevent more than a million babies from being stillborn or dying as newborns in developing countries every year, new research said on Tuesday.

An international team of researchers also estimated that one quarter of the world's babies are born either premature or underweight, adding that almost no progress is being made in this area.

In this photograph taken on April 24, 2023, Indu Sharma, a pregnant woman gets herself checked by a doctor at a hospital in Dehra, in the Kangra district of India's Himachal Pradesh state. AFP PHOTO

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