Perinatal mortality in eastern Uganda: a community based prospective cohort study.

Victoria Nankabirwa1, James K Tumwine, Thorkild Tylleskär

  • 1Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. nankabirwav@gmail.com

Plos One
|May 17, 2011
PubMed
Summary

Reducing neonatal mortality is key to child survival. In Eastern Uganda, stillbirth and early neonatal mortality risks were high, with home births and lack of bed nets significantly increasing perinatal death risk.

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