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#WorldPrematurityDay chat with Joy Lawn
To help ring in the second annual World Prematurity Day, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health participated in a 12-hour round-the-world Twitter Relay. Below is a summary of the conversation that took place during this portion of the relay with Born Too Soon report author Dr Joy Lawn.
WHO | Dr Joy LawnJoy Lawn is an African-born paediatrician and perinatal epidemiologist with British citizenship. She is based in South Africa as Senior R...- INTRO
Here we go! Thrilled to be hosting an hour of this Global Twitter Relay building momentum for #WorldPrematurityDay.- After #pneumonia, prematurity is the biggest reason children around the world fail to #survive5. #WorldPrematurityDay
- More than 1 in 10 babies are #borntoosoon, amounting to a worldwide total of 15 million #preterm births every year. #WorldPrematurityDay
- Unacceptably, more than 1 million of these #preemies don't make it to their 1st month of life. But we can change this. #WorldPrematurityDay
- We're pleased 2 have @SavetheChildren's @JoyLawn here w/ us to tell u why most of these deaths are utterly preventable. #WorldPrematurityDay
My pleasure! Looking forward to adding to 12 hr twitter on why babies #borntoosoon are more visible now than last #WorldPrematurityDay- @joylawn has been a major force behind this year's #WorldPrematurityDay, loudly spreading the msg: babies #borntoosoon are not born to die.
- Check out this recent interview with @joylawn in which she underlines what can and must be done: bit.ly/RU2tsP
- Dr Lawn also coordinated 1st ever country stats on #preterm birth ... #WorldPrematurityDay
- ... for @TheLancet and #BornTooSoon report in May 2012 with @HannahBlencowe and @WHO #WorldPrematurityDay
- The #BornTooSoon report was a game-changer, in terms of documenting the extent & severity of the problem. #WorldPrematurityDay #globalhealth
- Nearly 50 int., regional & national orgs joined #BornTooSoon report led by @PMNCH, @savethechildren @WHO @Marchofdimes #WorldPrematurityDay
- WHO | Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm BirthIntroduction 2 MAY 2012 | NEW YORK - Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth provides the first-ever national, regional ...
- Q&A
- Joy, what would you say are the most important changes we’ve seen for #preterm birth since #BornTooSoon launch in 2012? #WorldPrematurityDay
- #borntoosoon change 1: Data power. Most of world’s 1.1M #preterm birth deaths enter & leave world wo data. No data=no lifesaving action
- #borntoosoon change 2: Parent power, personal stories. All #preemies are a son or daughter. Baby lost not just a stat. #WorldPrematurityDay
- #borntoosoon change 3: #preemies saved. 90:10 survival gap by country of birth unacceptable. We can & must close it. #healthworkers
