WHO Global Position Paper and Implementation Strategy on kangaroo mother care call for fundamental reorganisation of maternal-infant care

Gary L Darmstadt, Betty Kirkwood, Shuchita Gupta; WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition KMC Working Group

Collaborators, Affiliations

Collaborators

WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition KMC Working Group:
Gary L Darmstadt¹, Betty Kirkwood², Shuchita Gupta³, Ebunoluwa Adejuyigbe⁴, Rajiv Bahl³, Maneesh Batra⁵, Zulfiqar Bhutta⁶, Tasmin Bota⁷, Nathalie Charpak⁸, Harish Chellani⁹, Mickey Chopra¹⁰, Teesta Dey¹¹, Queen Dube¹², Nicholas Embleton¹³, Viviana Fernandez¹⁴, Elizabeth Franklin¹⁵, Meena Gandhi¹⁶, Sumita Ghosh¹⁷, Lars Gronseth¹⁸, Tedbabe Degefie Hailegebriel¹⁹, Aya Hasegawa²⁰, Bo Jacobsson²¹, Lily Kak²², Jan Lucas Ket²³, Tore Laerdal²⁴, Joy E Lawn²⁵, Silke Mader²⁶, Hema Magge⁵, Sarmila Mazumder⁹, Keiko Osaki²⁰, Janna Patterson²⁷, Luwei Pearson¹⁹, Roberta Petrucci²⁸, Mihretab Salasibew²⁹, Abiy Seifu³⁰, Nalini Singhal³¹, Peter Waiswa³², Dilys Walker³³, Karen Walker³⁴, Steve Wall³⁵, Bjorn Westrup³⁶

Affiliations

¹ Prematurity Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
⁵ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶ Institute for Global Health and Development, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁷ Preemie Connect, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁸ Kangaroo Foundation, Bogota, Colombia.
⁹ Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India.
¹⁰ World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
¹¹ Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), Geneva, Switzerland.
¹² Ministry of Health, Government of Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi.
¹³ Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
¹⁴ FUNDAPREMA, San José, Costa Rica.
¹⁵ International Confederation of Midwives, Den Haag, Netherlands.
¹⁶ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Government, London, UK.
¹⁷ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
¹⁸ Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Oslo, Norway.
¹⁹ UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
²⁰ Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan.
²¹ International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, London, UK.
²² USAID, Washington, DC, USA.
²³ Purmerend, Netherlands.
²⁴ Laerdal Foundation, Stavanger, Norway.
²⁵ Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
²⁶ European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), Munich, Germany.
²⁷ American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, DC, USA.
²⁸ Médecins Sans Frontières International, Geneva, Switzerland.
²⁹ Children's Investment Fund Foundation, London, UK.
³⁰ School of Public Health of Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³¹ International Pediatric Association, Jakarta, Indonesia.
³² Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda.
³³ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³⁴ Council of International Neonatal Nurses and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³⁵ Save the Children, Washington, DC, US.
³⁶ Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 37207686
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01000-0

WHO Global Position Paper and Implementation Strategy on kangaroo mother care call for fundamental reorganisation of maternal-infant care

Gary L Darmstadt et al. Lancet. 2023.

. 2023 May 27;401(10390):1751-1753.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01000-0. Epub 2023 May 16.

Authors

Gary L Darmstadt, Betty Kirkwood, Shuchita Gupta; WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition KMC Working Group

Collaborators

WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition KMC Working Group:
Gary L Darmstadt¹, Betty Kirkwood², Shuchita Gupta³, Ebunoluwa Adejuyigbe⁴, Rajiv Bahl³, Maneesh Batra⁵, Zulfiqar Bhutta⁶, Tasmin Bota⁷, Nathalie Charpak⁸, Harish Chellani⁹, Mickey Chopra¹⁰, Teesta Dey¹¹, Queen Dube¹², Nicholas Embleton¹³, Viviana Fernandez¹⁴, Elizabeth Franklin¹⁵, Meena Gandhi¹⁶, Sumita Ghosh¹⁷, Lars Gronseth¹⁸, Tedbabe Degefie Hailegebriel¹⁹, Aya Hasegawa²⁰, Bo Jacobsson²¹, Lily Kak²², Jan Lucas Ket²³, Tore Laerdal²⁴, Joy E Lawn²⁵, Silke Mader²⁶, Hema Magge⁵, Sarmila Mazumder⁹, Keiko Osaki²⁰, Janna Patterson²⁷, Luwei Pearson¹⁹, Roberta Petrucci²⁸, Mihretab Salasibew²⁹, Abiy Seifu³⁰, Nalini Singhal³¹, Peter Waiswa³², Dilys Walker³³, Karen Walker³⁴, Steve Wall³⁵, Bjorn Westrup³⁶

Affiliations

¹ Prematurity Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
⁵ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶ Institute for Global Health and Development, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁷ Preemie Connect, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁸ Kangaroo Foundation, Bogota, Colombia.
⁹ Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India.
¹⁰ World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
¹¹ Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), Geneva, Switzerland.
¹² Ministry of Health, Government of Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi.
¹³ Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
¹⁴ FUNDAPREMA, San José, Costa Rica.
¹⁵ International Confederation of Midwives, Den Haag, Netherlands.
¹⁶ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Government, London, UK.
¹⁷ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
¹⁸ Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Oslo, Norway.
¹⁹ UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
²⁰ Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan.
²¹ International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, London, UK.
²² USAID, Washington, DC, USA.
²³ Purmerend, Netherlands.
²⁴ Laerdal Foundation, Stavanger, Norway.
²⁵ Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
²⁶ European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), Munich, Germany.
²⁷ American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, DC, USA.
²⁸ Médecins Sans Frontières International, Geneva, Switzerland.
²⁹ Children's Investment Fund Foundation, London, UK.
³⁰ School of Public Health of Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³¹ International Pediatric Association, Jakarta, Indonesia.
³² Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda.
³³ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³⁴ Council of International Neonatal Nurses and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³⁵ Save the Children, Washington, DC, US.
³⁶ Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 37207686
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01000-0

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SG is a staff member of WHO. We all contributed to the WHO Global Position Paper(3) and Implementation Strategy(4) on kangaroo mother care that are discussed in this Comment. We declare no other competing interests.

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WHO Global Position Paper and Implementation Strategy on kangaroo mother care call for fundamental reorganisation of maternal-infant care

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WHO Global Position Paper and Implementation Strategy on kangaroo mother care call for fundamental reorganisation of maternal-infant care

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