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October 2022
NIHR Unit Newsletter Issue 2 Please read using Sway
We have a new publication: ‘Moving towards understanding’, acceptability of investigations following stillbirth in sub-Saharan Africa: A grounded theory study.BJOG. 2022; 00: 1– 9. , , , , , , et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.17319
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Actis Danna V, Lavender T, Laisser R, Chimwaza A, Chisuse I, Kasengele C, Kimaro D, Kuzenza F, Lyangenda K, Mwamadi M, Shayo H, Tuwele K, Wakasiaka S, Bedwell C, Exploring the impact of healthcare workers communication with women who have experienced stillbirth in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. A grounded theory study, Women and Birth, 2022, ISSN 1871-5192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2022.04.006.
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Camacho, E.M., Smyth, R., Danna, V.A. et al. Women’s preferences for antenatal care in Tanzania: a discrete choice experiment. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 22, 296 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04634-x
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Mills TA, Ayebare E, Mweteise J, Nabisere A, Mukhwana R, Nendela A, Omoni G, Wakasiaka S, Lavender T, ‘There is trauma all round’: A qualitative study of health workers’ experiences of caring for parents after stillbirth in Kenya and Uganda, Women and Birth, 2022, ISSN 1871-5192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2022.02.012.
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Mills TA, Wakasiaka S, Ayebare E, Actis Danna V, Lavender T, Bedwell C, Going viral – capacity strengthening in the context of pandemic(s), Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Volume 80,2022, Pages 39-48, ISSN 1521-6934, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2021.10.006.
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04 May 2022 – “International Day of the Midwife”
The Stillbirth and Neonatal Deaths Research Unit at LSTM is the only midwifery led NIHR Global Health group or unit funded to date. Continue reading here
03 March 2022 – NIHR Case Study
Midwives leading the way on stillbirth prevention and bereavement care research continue to read here
24 June 2021 – Official launch of the Impact report 2021
Life-changing research study led by African midwives is helping reduce stillbirths read here
Final NIHR Group Impact report available here
Country reports
Kenya, Malawi, Uganda,
Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Available here the list of the most recent publications and study protocols of the Group
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LAMRN is a network dedicated to improving maternal health outcomes in Africa through increasing evidence-based practice in midwifery. LAMRN aims to support midwifery research, information sharing, networking and training activities in six countries in the region namely, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Working across the six countries LAMRN brings together a large network of dedicated midwifery researchers, teachers and practitioners… Read More
LAMRN Highlights
LAMRN Zimbabwe support the opening of the Thembani clinic, at Mpilo Hospital (Bulawayo) to care for women with history of stillbirth
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LAMRN has developed a new educational game – Dignity – to promote respectful maternal and newborn care.
The University of Manchester was highly commended by The Awards judges for International collaboration of the Year Category for its work improving the health of women in low and middle-income countries!
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